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Was thylacine a species of tiger?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was not actually a tiger at all. Tasmanian tigers were actually large marsupial carnivores that used to live in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are believed to be extinct since the early 1900's.

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