There are no large marsupial predators living in Australia today, but the thylacine ‘wolf’ only became extinct recently. There may still be a few survivors in Tasmania.
The thylacine was a large, dog-like animal with striped sides and an enormous mouth lined with fierce teeth. Sheep farmers hunted it to the edge of extinction in Tasmania, in order to protect their flocks. The last known thylacine died in a zoo in 1936, but there are still occasional reports of their being seen in the thick bush.
The thylacine was once common throughout Australia, but it was pushed out by the success of the dingo, a semi-domesticated dog introduced into Australia by the Aborigines when they colonized this country.
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