The pelt and skull of the last known thylacine are identified in Hobart, solving an 85-year mystery.
The specimen was kept in a Hobart museum all along, an author saysThe remains of the last known Tasmanian tiger - thought lost for 85 years - have been found stashed in the cupboard of an Australian museum.But what happened to its skeleton and skin afterwards had been an enduring mystery.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery lost track of the remains, and they were believed to have been thrown out. New research has discovered they were at the museum all along - preserved but not properly catalogued. "For years, many museum curators and researchers searched for its remains without success, as no thylacine material dating from 1936 had been recorded," said Robert Paddle, who published a book in 2000 on the extinction of the species.But he and one of the museum's curators found an unpublished taxidermist's report, prompting a review of the museum's collections.
Eventually the marsupial was only found on the island of Tasmania, where it was ultimately hunted to extinction.
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