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Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 20.21 EST They regularly post bags full of scat to biology professors for testing. They spend their life savings on expensive camera equipment trying to capture one creature and create active social groups which have broken into warring rival factions. One has spent half a century of his life on the quest. And they’re on the plane down to Tasmania even more than Jacqui Lambie. What makes people so fixated on trying to prove the thylacine – also known as the ...

Tasmanian Tigers Could Still Have Been Alive in the 2000s, Scientists Argue Photo: Ben Sheppard Of all the animals to have gone extinct since humans were around to notice, perhaps none loom as large in our collective consciousness as the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger. Unlike the dodo or the woolly mammoth, the thylacine is still lit, however dimly, in living memory. In fact, since the last known member of the species died in a zoo in 1936, supposed sightings of the creature h...