The thylacine is the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern times, because of its striped tiger, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, which was widely distributed in the rainforest of New Guinea, the Australian grasslands and other places, and later only distributed in Tasmania due to human activities. Completely extinct.
The last thylacine, Benjamin, died on 7 September 1936 at hobart zoo on Tasmania.
The thylacine is slender, has a fox-like face, can open its mouth to 180 degrees, often lurks in trees, and then suddenly jumps on the back of its prey, crushing the skull of its prey in one bite.
The first contact with the thylacine by the aborigines of Australia dates back to at least 1000 BC. But since the British explorer Cork went on an expedition to Australia in 1770, the thylacine has been hated by herders because it is suspected of attacking sheep, but most of the culprits are actually Australian wild dogs.
When European settlers came to Australia, they regarded the thylacine as an enemy, considered it a "sheep killer", and carried out mass slaughter encouraged by the government's reward system, coupled with the introduction of dogs and the occupation of their habitat by humans, making it nearly extinct.
Since 1936, there have been reports of thylacine-like animals attacking livestock in New Guinea, and many witnesses have claimed to have seen thylacines, but they cannot prove that the thylacines are indeed alive.
In 1967, decomposing animal carcasses were found in caves, which were confirmed by experts to be thylacine corpses, but scientists disagreed on whether they were fresh bodies or dried corpses left behind many years ago.
In recent years, in the fields of Victoria, Australia, someone has photographed a suspected Tasmanian tiger galloping. Some believe that the thylacine is still alive, but today the scientific community generally believes that the thylacine is extinct.