Thylacines, now extinct, were dasyurids,or carnivorous marsupials. Therefore, their closest relatives were the other dasyurids, including the numbat of Western Australia, the Tasmanian devil and the quoll.
The only way in which Tasmanian devils and Tasmanian tigers are related is that they are both marsupials. The Tasmanian devil is more closely related to the quoll than it is to the (now extinct) Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine. It is also more closely related to some small marsupials than it is to the Thylacine.
Neither. The Tasmanian tiger (actually the thylacine) was a marsupial; that puts it in whole separate subclass from dogs and cats, which are placentals. The thylacine occupied the ecological niche which is filled in other places by placental predators. All of the animals mentioned are mammals, but that's about as closely as they're related.
The now-extinct Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) was a dasyurid, or carnivorous marsupial. It was distantly related to the quoll and the Tasmanian devil.It was neither a wolf nor a tiger.
This has already been attempted. Scientists attempted to clone the Thylacine using DNA from a preserved female joey (often incorrectly referred to as a 'pup'), and from bone and tooth specimens held by the Australian Museum. They were unable to extract DNA of sufficient quality to clone a Thylacine. For more information on the Thylacine Cloning Project, see the related link below.
The correct name for the Tasmanian wolf was Thylacine. Please see the related question below for the answer.
It is too late to improve the life of a Thylacine. The last known Thylacine died in 1936.
Information about the Tasmanian Tiger, also known as the Thylacine, can be found at the related links below.
No. Scientists attempted to clone the Thylacine using DNA from a preserved female joey (often incorrectly referred to as a 'pup'), and from bone and tooth specimens held by the Australian Museum. They were unable to extract DNA of sufficient quality to clone a Thylacine. For more information on the Thylacine Cloning Project, see the related link below.
Thylacinus cynocephalus. It means "thylacine with a dog's head."
The Thylacine existed up until the early part of the 20th century. The last known Thylacine died in the Hobart Zoo in September 1936.
Thylacine was a species. Its species name was "Thylacinus cynocephalus".
No. There is no record of a single thylacine - which is now extinct - ever harming a person.