The Thylacine Museum

The Thylacine Museum is an online educational guide to the thylacine, also called Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf. Native to Australia and New Guinea, it is thought to have become extinct in the 20th century. The Thylacine became extinct on the Australian mainland thousands of years before European settlement of the continent, but survived on the island of Tasmania.

The last known wild Thylacine to be killed was shot in 1930. The last Thylacine, later referred to as Benjamin, was captured in 1933 and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years. It died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect - locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: baking heat in the day and freezing temperatures at night.

(via Ursi's Blog)