Date in year · 1936 · The 1930s
On September 7, 1936, the last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. Wilfried Martens, Robert F. Overmyer, Bert Sugar would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · September 7, 1936
The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The thylacine died out in New Guinea and mainland Australia around 3,600–3,200 years ago, possibly because of the introduction of the dingo, whose earliest record dates to around the same time, but which never reached Tasmania. Before European settlement, around 5,000 remained in the wild on the island of Tasmania.
Around 1936
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 936th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1930s decade.
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Extinct carnivorous marsupial from Australasia
The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The thylacine died out in New Guinea and mainland Australia around 3,600–3,200 years ago, possibly because of the introduction of the dingo, whose earliest record dates to around the same time, but which never reached Tasmania. Before European settlement, around 5,000 remained in the wild on the island of Tasmania.
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