Here’s A Nice Thylacine Photograph I Personally Hadn’t Seen Before. From Eric Guiler’s Book “Tasmanian

This mummified thylacine was discovered in a cave on the Nullarbor Plain of southern Australia in 1966. It is estimated to be between 4,000-5,000 years old.

The mummy is now displayed in the Western Australian Museum in the same position it was found. Photo via Rob Davis on Twitter.

thylacine from the london zoo

Charles R. Knight (1874-1953), Tasmanian Wolf and Cubs

Wait wait!!! The skin doesn't quite match up and we really need more photos of the specimen to match it with Benjamin!

The article is confusing I'll admit 😭

THEY FOUND BENJAMIN’S REMAINS!?!?!??!?!?

General Zoology. Written by Mary J. Guthrie and John M. Anderson. 1957.

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This is a portrait of them done at the national zoo in Washington DC by Gleeson.

She is thought to be depicted as the Joey in the pouch as at the size and predicted age the mother would not allow the Joey into the pouch so it was suspected the mother allowed her because she was sick. Poor baby. She passed in September when the family arrived in July.

Juvenile female thylacine skin and skull from the Smithsonian NMNH (USNM 115365). [x]

This individual was one of three pouch young that arrived along with an adult female; sadly, she was the only one of the joeys that did not survive to adulthood. She died in 1902 shortly after her family’s arrival at the National Zoo.

Size comparison of this skin to a full-grown adult (actually her male littermate) below from @thebrainscoop​ [x]. So smol :’(

Thylacine By: W. S. Berridge From: A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere 1913

I went to the natural history museum at Harvard a few weeks ago, saw a Tasmanian Tiger in person for the first time, cried about it, and then proceeded to take photos of it from every angle possible as I stared longingly at it for many many minutes.

W.D. & H.O. Wills cigarette card featuring “Tasmanian Wolf”, circa 1890-1915.

Thylacine energy

TONIGHT. WE’RE DRINKING FROM THE POND.