Striped like a tiger, capable of carrying its cubs in a bag like a kangaroo: the thylacine! When Europeans settled in Tasmania, Australia, in the 18th century, there were an estimated 5,000 bags on the island

Striped like a tiger, capable of carrying its cubs in a bag like a kangaroo: the thylacine!

When Europeans settled in Tasmania, Australia, in the 18th century, there were an estimated 5,000 thylacines on the island, but they soon suffered habitat destruction, exotic wild dogs, and new diseases, and their populations were getting smaller and smaller.

In 1933 someone captured a thylacine, named Benjamin, kept at the Herbat Zoo, and in 1936 was locked outside on a cold night due to the negligence of the caretaker and died of cold death! There has been no news of the existence of live thylacines since then!

Benjamin is the last known living thylacine, the so-called end of species. In the 1980s, the species was declared extinct. To this day, there are constant reports of thylacine-like animals attacking livestock, and many witnesses claim to have seen thylacines, whether in Tasmania, Australia or in remote areas of the Australian continent, but there has been no evidence that the thylacine is still alive for nearly nine decades.

This is a precious video of the last thylacine!