Tasmanian Tiger By Myka & Cameron
Full name: Thylacine
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Full Name: Thylacine (Common name Tasmanian tiger) Size: 180cm long Weight: 30kg Habitat: Open forests and woodland Found: Central Australia Relatives: Tasmanian Devil Food: Marsupials Identification: Pouched Wolf |
Picture of a Thylacine |
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The Thylacine were killed because people made farm land in their habitat. Throughout the 19th century people settled in Tasmania and killed the Thylacine for its skins. Thylacine are very shy and avoided contact with humans
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Where the Thylacine lived |
| On the13th of August 2001, Robert Heading
who describes himself as a amateur fossil hunter, found a
Thylacine fossil in South Australia. Robert found it deep down in the
earth. The fossilized skeleton was
discovered on Crown land near Burra, a copper mining area about 160km
northeast of Adelaide, where Robert lives. Robert
has been looking for theses things for ten years. (Sunday Herald Sun
27.8.01)
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The Tasmanian coat of arms |
