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/θˈaɪlɐsˌiːn/
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NOUN
- rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct
How To Use thylacine In A Sentence
- There are no records of either thylacines or dingoes (Canis lupus dingo) having ever lived on the island.
- Farmers would hate the wolf from the bag, see a killing one, on this last one wild thylacine was also killed.
- Nimbacinus dicksoni, a plesiomorphic thylacine (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Tertiary deposits of Queensland and the Norhtern Territory. Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
- In Australia, he predicted with great regret the extinction of the thylacine and called the authorities short-sighted for not protecting red kangaroos.
- He looks just like that black and white videos I've seen of the last thylacine on Earth, but I know from pictures online during wanders for cryptids that they are actually kind of a dusky brown color, like dingos.
- We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine.
- The Hunter is an account of a corporately funded mercenary and his pursuit of a mythic thylacine - a Tasmanian Tiger.
- Lankester "homogeny;" [162] and (2) a relationship induced, not derived -- such as exists between parts closely similar in relative position, but with no genetic affinity, or only a remote one, as the homological relation between the chambers of the heart of a bat and those of a {159} bird, or the similar teeth of the thylacine and the dog before spoken of. On the Genesis of Species
- The dingo competed with the thylacine for food - and also ate it.
- A researcher with the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA is testing animal scat from the 1950s and 1960s to determine whether any were left by thylacines. Archive 2007-06-01