The last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity. It is hoped that this new research will be able to resurrect the extinct marsupial. Source: Unknown Author / Public Domain.

The Tasmanian Tiger: The Long Journey to Resurrect an Icon

The Tasmanian Tiger is one of the most famous extinct animals. Also known as the thylacine, it survived well into the modern era and we even have film footage of a living example. Sadly this footage was of the last tiger, which died in captivity on the 7th September 1936 in Hobart Zoo on the