thylacine
/ˈθaɪləˌsaɪn/
noun
- A large, meat-eating marsupial that looked like a wolf with stripes on its back, native to Australia and Tasmania. It is now considered extinct.
- The thylacine was also called the Tasmanian tiger because of the stripes on its back.
- Scientists are studying preserved thylacine DNA to learn more about this extinct animal.
- The last known thylacine died in a zoo in Tasmania in 1936.