| We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine. |
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| The drawings that led up to this painting were very helpful to me in figuring how the shapes would fit together in my thylacine triptych. |
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| In Australia, he predicted with great regret the extinction of the thylacine and called the authorities short-sighted for not protecting red kangaroos. |
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| Dingoes were originally pack animals and Australia's largest carnivores, and are believed to have caused the extinction of the thylacine and Tasmanian devil on the mainland. |
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| For his thylacine painting, he looked up images in the files of the museum's mammalogy department, where he is well regarded. |
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| The thylacine, with its twistable elbow, was more of an ambusher. |
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| Historians in centuries hence will wonder if the thylacine was an actual animal of flesh and blood or a pantheon of thylacinamorphic deities. |
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| The thylacine DNA worked, switching on a marker gene in cartilage-producing cells in a mouse embryo, essentially resurrecting a bit of the extinct animal. |
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| The Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936, and is now found in the wild only in Tasmania. |
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| I have seen mounted specimens and preserved skins of the Bali Tiger, the Tarpan, and the Thylacine. |
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