Tag: Tasmania
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Long-extinct Tasmanian tiger may still be alive and prowling the wilderness, scientists claim
LiveScience has a story about the Tasmanian Tiger. Some scientists think that the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) survived much longer in the wild that previously thought. Thylacines were wolf-like marsupials that lived on the island of Tasmania. The last known animal died in the Hobart Zoo on September 7th, 1936. It filled an important ecological niche…
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Trilobite Tuesday #25: Fossils of New Trilobite Species Found in Tasmania
SciNews has a piece about a new species of trilobites from Tasmania. A new species of the genus Gravicalymene has been named. It’s called Gravicalymene bakeri after the actor Thomas Stewart Baker, the fourth actor to play the title character in the television series “Doctor Who”. This animal lived about 450 million years ago during…
