Meanings of thylacine in английском

The last surviving thylacine was thrown out with the weekly trash.

Cats have specialized, retractable claws adapted to grappling prey whereas the thylacine did not.

The thylacine was officially declared extinct in 1986, but unconfirmed sightings are regularly reported in Tasmania.

Despite surviving to the early 20th century, relatively little is known about how the thylacine actually hunted.

For Figuerido and Janis, the key feature for investigating the habits of the thylacine was one particular joint.

The thylacine has not been forgotten.

The last thylacine died in 1936.

Constraint may have been more important in the thylacine's elbow arrangement than adaptation to a particular hunting style, though.

David Thurrowgood from Applied Conservation Science in Tasmania was instrumental in getting the thylacine to the National Museum of Australia.

The attention has never really gone off the thylacine, so new material here in New Zealand is really exciting, he said.

Australia's extinct, marsupial thylacine had a kangaroo-like pouch but otherwise looked like a wolf, despite evolving from a different mammal lineage.

Studies into thylacine DNA have already been made, but there's not much of it around, and more diversity gives more clues.

In Australia the interdiction should include the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf, all the large kangaroos, the emu, lyre bird and the mallee-bird.

They put three candidate species to the test -the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, the Yangtze River dolphin, and the Xerces blue butterfly.

In fact, they are even protected to ensure territory for the Tasmanian devil, whose range overlaps with that which the thylacine once inhabited.

Tennyson says the more we continue to discover about the thylacine the better we can understand big picture questions about species evolution and destruction.