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sneepsnorp3d · 4 months
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Low poly Thylacine says AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
i love you thylacine......................
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isnyr · 10 months
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meadowbrown · 8 months
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the last thylacine
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honeycomb-butch · 2 years
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colorized thylacine footage
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Colorized Thylacines pt. 3
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brothermoth · 2 months
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i miss them
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extinctionstories · 11 months
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This 36x48” oil on canvas diptych is part of a series I’ve been working on based on the thylacine, also known as the “Tasmanian Tiger” or marsupial wolf.
One of my biggest interests has always been animals, and in particular the ones that humans have destroyed. Every lost or vanishing species is its own story, and as an illustrator theirs are the stories that I am the most invested in telling (hence the blog).
The thylacine is one of the classic examples of human-caused extinction: an utterly unique creature, deliberately exterminated due to a combination of greed, ignorance, hubris, and fear.
Scared or anxious marsupials have a habit of stretching their jaws in a display known as a yawn (you’ve probably seen memes of opossums that look like they’re yelling—it’s the same thing). This display was especially striking in the thylacine, which could open its jaw to over 90°. Some of the most famous photos of thylacines capture them in this attitude of fear.
Unfortunately for the thylacine, humans have more direct methods of dealing with the things that scare them.
The title of this pair of paintings is ‘When They Are Frightened, They Show Their Teeth’.
The overall series is called ‘Here Be Monsters’, as a nod to both the far-flung environs of the thylacine, and the behavior of those who intruded upon it.
Stay tuned for more.
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olessan · 1 year
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The central continent of my worldbuilding world is dominated by marsupials and monotremes, and birds. There are several species of thylacine, and one — which is essentially our Thylacinus cynocephalus — is domesticated.
They are a recent domestication, with about 250 generations having passed. Compared to the wild ancestors, they have similar builds, but with more colours, variation in size, and longer lifespans (12-20 years). They have lost their natural reclusive nature and though shy, are friendly and inquisitive and trainable to a point. Most prefer to be solitary or tolerate the presence of 1-2 others, though get along well with other calm-tempered species. Their prey drive is greatly reduced but many suffer anxiety in loud or busy environments.
Lil update: If you would like fancy thylacines to put places, I turned this into a poster/prints, and there's also a sticker <3
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frognapsart · 9 months
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A little thylacine :)
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rogerrrroger · 4 months
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Sniper with a pet thylacine? I think he deserves one
HAHA honestly I thought it was a Pokémon when I read the name because I only ever call them tassy tigers
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Despite me wanting them to not go extinct I have no doubt that saxton hale would have hunted them to extinction years before
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vermillion-vulture · 1 year
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Extinction series number 3! The Thylacine!
More commonly known by the misleading names Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger, this stripey guy was actually a marsupial. Y'know, like a kangaroo.
Unlike the two previous animals, the thylacine's story doesn't have a happy ending. They went extinct in the 1930s thanks to excessive hunting in the name of pest control, habitat destruction, and the introduction of new diseases carried by imported domesticated animals.
Some people hold out hope that there might be a small, undiscovered population still out there somewhere, but at this point that isn't looking super likely 😔
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sphaliro · 9 months
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Animation practice with a thylacine doing one of their threat displays. I wanna make a music video with a friend about these guys.
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vuelode-irbis · 6 months
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The sun will set one day, but let's bask in it while it's still up
Saw this tweet with the two tasmanian tigers asleep and decided to draw them
ID: a digital drawing of two tasmanian tigers laying down in the grass. One of them is yellow and the other is brown. The latter is laying its head above the first one's front leg. Thery're both asleep and smiling. The ground below them is brown and turns green where their tails are.
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thylacine-dreams · 6 months
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“The genetic material — which came from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, specimen in the collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm — has allowed scientists to better understand how the animal’s genes functioned. The researchers shared their findings in a study published Tuesday in the scientific journal Genome Research.”
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skulllesbian · 1 year
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just remembered they had both a thylacine mount AND skeleton in the museum in darmstadt so i needed to show you all!
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moonlight-wolf-archive · 11 months
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-Top pictured is one of the Burrell photographs. Which were edited to be close ups to depict a 'thylacine in the wild' later debunked to be a captive thylacine.
-Middle pictured is the Wilfred batty thylacine which is the last recorded thylacine shot in the wild.
-Bottom pictured is the Beaumaris zoo family group.
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