The last Thylacine of the world

Thylacine has a talent that no other animal can imitate: spreading a wide mouth to the ear. To be more precise, its two snout can form an angle of 120 degrees.

Unfortunately, this unique performance could never be seen in person again, because the Thylacine finally retired from the world on September 7, 1936, because he was not well cared for - locked outside the barn and all night suffer from the cold below 0 degrees C.

Also known as the Tasmanian tiger name, Thylacine is the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern times. It does not have any lineages relations with predators living on the Northern Hemisphere although there are many similarities to wolves and tigers.

Until 1986 Thylacine was still wearing a ' threatened mammal ' label because according to an international convention, any animal would have to hide all traces for at least 50 years before being declared extinct.

Thylacine extends its wide mouth to the ears (Photo: arfra.org)

However, many people still insist that Thylacine still exists . Occasionally there are rumors of having caught Thylacine in Tasmania or somewhere in Australia. In January 1973, people filmed a strange animal that appeared in southern Australia and thought it was a thylacine - this claim has not been confirmed yet.

The last vivid images of the Thylacine species were recorded in 1933 at Hobart Zoo (Tasmania, southern Australia). The 62-second documentary is the last piece of this ' wide-mouthed ' animal.

The last descendant of the Thylacine species. (Photo: arfra.org)

Thuy Van