
A Tasmanian tiger model displayed at the Australian Museum in Sydney
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)The remains of the last-known thylacine, thought for decades to have been lost, have been rediscovered sitting in a cupboard in a Tasmanian museum.
The last-known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo on the night of September 7, 1936 and its body was presumed to have been discarded.