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Tom Davidson

Long-lost remains of last Tasmanian tiger from 1936 found in museum cupboard

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.

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