How to Use thylacine in a Sentence

thylacine

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Definition of thylacinenext
  • None of this is to say that the thylacine is more or less likely to be revived.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • If all goes to plan, a thylacine-like baby would then be born into the world.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In contrast to the in utero years needed by a mammoth, the thylacine may only need a few weeks.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Still, even if there are some out there, for the most part, the thylacine species has been missing for several decades.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The last wild thylacine was killed by a farmer in 1930, and the last captive animal died six years later.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2011
  • At the time he was filmed, Benjamin was the last thylacine alive in captivity.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
  • But the scientists are still a long way off from achieving such a breakthrough with the dodo—or even with the mammoth or thylacine.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In his eyes, the ongoing mystery of the thylacine isn’t really about the animal at all.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
  • The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is believed to have gone extinct in 1936.
    — Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Spurred by these reports, a team of researchers decided to give thylacines a second look.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The zoo posted ads offering to pay trappers for a new thylacine specimen to no avail.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
  • Reintroducing the thylacine to its former habit would have to be done very cautiously, Pask added.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Officially named the thylacine, the species is commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger for the stripes on its back.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The tiger, or thylacine, was the world’s largest marsupial carnivore.
    — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Aside from the dodo, Colossal also has plans to revive the woolly mammoth and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
  • About 750 thylacine specimens are held in museums, and most are pelts or bones with little viable DNA.
    — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • These reports reflect just how large the thylacine still looms in the collective imagination.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Previously, the oldest thylacine footage was from 1933.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
  • The team won’t be able to exactly recreate the thylacine but instead will end up creating a hybrid animal, an altered form of thylacine.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The researchers did find that reports of sightings increased after news stories about thylacines circulated in Australia, per the Times.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Now, however, a new era in thylacine research arrives with the first reconstruction of its cortical maps.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2017
  • The biotech company Colossal is actively working to bring back the woolly mammoth and thylacine from extinction.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Webb Miller has found similarities between the thylacine's genome and that of the numbat, a marsupial anteater native to western Australia (right).
    — Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2015
  • The biotech company Colossal is actively working to reincarnate both the ancient woolly mammoth and the thylacine.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But there are major differences between wolf dispersal and a thylacine, Moskowitz cautions.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The plan, as Colossal notes on its website, is to create a new thylacine and then introduce it to the creature’s original natural environments.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The Tasmanian tiger, otherwise known as the thylacine, is an Australian marsupial that has been extinct since 1936 after roaming the Earth for millions of years.
    — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • European colonists killed thousands of thylacines for attacking sheep.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • About the size of a coyote, the thylacine disappeared about 2,000 years ago virtually everywhere except the Australian island of Tasmania.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Tasmanian tigers, also known as thylacines, were found on the island of Tasmania off Australia's south coast until they were hunted to extinction.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 19 May 2020

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