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Tasmanian tiger: Facts about the extinct thylacine

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Thylacinus cynocephalus means "dog-headed pouched dog" The Tasmanian tiger once roamed Australia (including Tasmania ) and New Guinea .

The last known thylacine died in Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart in 1936 .

Researchers are trying to bring the extinct creature back to life.

They plan to put DNA from the last Tasmanian tigers into the eggs of a mouse.

Thylacine pelts were sent to the University Museum of Zoology , Cambridge , between 1869 and 1871 .

The last Tasmanian tiger known to have been shot in the wild was shot in 1930 .

Tia is the managing editor and was previously a senior writer for Live Science.

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