SciShow: Why We Keep Looking for Tasmanian Tigers

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Content of the Lesson: The Tasmanian tiger was officially declared extinct in 1986, but there are some who still hold out hope. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/science/thylacines-tasmanian-tigers-sightings.html https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427214v1.abstract https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.171914 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0364 https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00844.x https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1998.tb00152.x https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12029 https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.13037 http://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/3/10/the-hunt-for-persisting-thylacines-an-interview Images https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/tasmanian-tiger-stalking-prey-extinct-carnivorous-marsupial-gm1249190657-364007100 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-view-of-a-pademelon-in-tasmania-australia-gm1187985355-335807241 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thylacinus.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wolf-in-forest-gm1264374213-370302889 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/jumping-kitten-gm1194323910-340039220 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tasmanian_Tiger_(Thylacine)_Skeletons.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thylacine-chicken.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dingo-gm450729657-24949894 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/tasmanian-tiger-thylacinus-cynocephalus-illustration-1896-gm1185062390-333823865 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/bigfoot-gm514854643-48377746 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/objects-11-gm173557913-85640


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