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“Museum staff were excited last week when they came across our mounted thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), specimen in a storeroom.”

Posted by Canterbury Museum on Facebook, April 13th 2019.

This thylacine taxidermy at QVMAG has been nicknamed “Frankentiger” because it was constructed from the parts of two different individuals. American taxidermist Frank Tose is pictured in the black and white photograph above constructing Frankentiger’s plaster form in 1937.

Photos are from Where Light Meets Dark. [x]

The Brighton Thylacine. This specimen lives in the Booth Natural History Museum and is on display at the time of writing. The collection  consists of natural history specimens collected by several Victorian collectors,(mostly taxidermy birds) plus others donated and found by locals. The museum now is themed around conservation and education.

The Thylacine was collected and mounted in the 1870s and is sadly quite faded, it is missing it’s stripes, though there is a chance it might not have had any. The feet are well preserved, as is it’s face. The display allows you to get close. I took more detailed photos which I will post. 

LOST THYLACINE FOOTAGE REDISCOVERED

Originally shot by Dr. Randle Stewart, an Australian psychiatrist, whilst on honeymoon in Tasmania, these 18 seconds of combined footage show the last captive thylacine in the world.

Commonly referred to as “Benjamin”, the individual lived at the now-abandoned Beaumaris Zoo from the early 1930s to his death in September of 1936, incidentally the same year thylacines were granted official protection by the Australian government.

The footage, shot in 1931, had been considered lost since the late 1970s.

Rare 200-year-old clay pipe depicting thylacine dubbed the 'holy grail' of Tasmanian archaeology - ABC News

A clay pipe depicting a Tasmanian tiger has the archaeology community in a buzz.

The pipe’s finder was an amateur bottle digger who found it sandwiched between two larger bottles at the base of a pit on a private property near Launceston in 2016.

The collector then sold the pipe as an unwanted item.

Stephen Sleightholme, from the International Thylacine Specimen Database, snapped up the pipe at auction.

Listen....idk what it is about the Wilfred Batty photos but they always make me jump when they finish and I am left with a thylacine in deep rigor mortis and really good colors.

So...Woolworth female and her joeys and Wilf Batty thylacine photos.

Damn I also think of thylacines and laika a bunch. That's nuts.

Baby baby boy

benjamin, my love

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

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