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Old 4th-July-2007, 06:54 AM
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Default Is the Mysterious Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct?

Wildlife scientists have re-opened the cryptic case of a carnivore that resembled a striped coyote and vanished from its Australian haunt nearly 80 years ago.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/0...ian_tiger.html
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Some pics would be good?
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Old 4th-July-2007, 05:20 PM
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The Tasmanian Tiger is long gone. Just another animal wiped off the face of the earth due to the white settlers relentless hunting. Also interesting to note that there are no true-blood Tasmanian Aboriginals alive either. White settlers wiped them out too.
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I would love to think they are still around, but I think include is right, they are gone and have been for some time.
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Maybe it was cancer, which was apparently the cause of the devils demise.

Tasmanian Devils Decimated by Mystery Cancer
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Old 26th-May-2008, 10:14 PM
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The whole issue of whether or not the last living Thylacine actually died in 1936 has probably been ongoing since that time. There are a number of videos that have appeared since then suggesting otherwise – including:

1973 Video:


2004 Video: Cryptomundo.com » Search for Thylacines: “A Triumph of Hope…”
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Old 28th-May-2008, 11:58 PM
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I would love to think they are still around, but I think include is right, they are gone and have been for some time.
kind of like the do do bird(however you spell it)?

i wish they're still around it.
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