The skin and skeleton of the last extinct marsupial wolf was accidentally found in an Australian museum.

Remains of a tilacine were found in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. About informs Guard.

The marsupial wolf or thylacine is an endemic Australian predatory mammal. Outwardly it looked like a wolf, but it had stripes on its skin, a fleshy tail like a kangaroo, and was carrying cubs in a bag. All thylacines died out in the first half of the 20th century, the last individual died at the zoo in 1936. The remains of this animal have strangely disappeared, and for decades scientists did not know where they were. No thylacine material from 1936 was recorded in the zoological collection, so it was assumed that his body was discarded.

They have now been found. This was caused by an accident – workers saw the taxidermist’s notes in the museum’s unpublished annual report of 1936/37, mentioning thylacine in the list of specimens the master was working on. After that, experts examined all the skin collections and indeed found the skin and bones of thylacine there. The reason for such indifference to the fate of the relics is that in 1936 no one believed that these animals went extinct. “Then it was believed to be in the forests [Тасмании] There are many more animals. The museum even offered a reward for those who could catch and bring back a live marsupial, but that never happened,” the experts explain.

Now the find will be preserved as one of the most valuable exhibits.



Source: Gazeta

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