Long-extinct Tasmanian tiger may still be alive and prowling the wilderness, scientists claim

The “fully distinctive,” wolf-like Tasmanian tigers that thrived on the island of Tasmania earlier than they went extinct in 1936 might have survived within the wilderness for much longer than beforehand thought, analysis suggests. There’s additionally a small risk they’re nonetheless alive at this time, consultants say. 

Tasmanian tigers, often known as thylacines (Thylacinus cynocephalus) had been carnivorous marsupials with distinctive stripes on their decrease again. The species was initially discovered throughout Australia however disappeared from the mainland roughly 3,000 years in the past as a result of human persecution. It continued on the island of Tasmania till a authorities bounty launched by the primary European settlers within the Eighties destroyed the inhabitants and drove the species to extinction.