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Change of vegetation doomed the
thylacine
A study from the Australian National University has
deepened the findings of an earlier paper that found climate change was the main
cause of the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine (Thylacinus
cynocephalus). The study, written by the ANU's Shimona Kealy and palaeontologist
Robin Beck ...
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Tasmanian tiger extinction linked to
climate change and Tassie devils
The last-known Tasmanian thylacine, which was the
largest marsupial predator that survived into recent times, died in captivity in
1936. Today, after a comprehensive dated tree-of-life study of thylacines
and other Australian tigers, which roamed the land millions of years ago, shows
a dramatic climate ...
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Tasmanian tiger extinction linked to
cooling climate
Although the Tasmanian thylacine was also hunted
to extinction, with the last known tiger dying in captivity in 1936, the genetic
health and ... and Dr Robin Beck, from the University of Salford in the UK,
identified a strong link between ancient climate cooling and thylacine
decline, coupled with separate ...
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