TAS: Factbox on the demise of the Tasmanian tiger

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: February 16, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2005
TAS: Factbox on the demise of the Tasmanian tiger

Factbox on the demise of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine.



3,300 years ago: First Tasmanian tigers roam mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea,
as well as Tasmania. Mummified Tasmanian tiger remains found in a cave on the Nullarbor
Plains in 1965, along with other evidence of mainland habitation such as fossils, bones
and Aboriginal paintings.

1830: The Van Diemens Land Company, a pastoral company in north-west Tasmania, introduces
the first bounty on the Tasmanian tiger, claiming that the ...

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