"Thylacine was the fiercest of the marsupials"
1915 CE • Tasmania, Australia
“The thylacine was the fiercest of the marsupials or pouched animals in Australia. It is now extinct, except in the remotest mountains of Tasmania. Its fierceness did not save it. It was abundant all over Australia as far back as Pliocene times, and it has been supplanted by a modern dog with a little larger brain.”
“SCIENCE DOES NOT JUSTIFY HUMAN WARFARE,” New York Times 8 Aug. 1915.
Image: Richter, Author Henry Constantine. Thylacinus Cynocephalus. Digital image. The Mammals of Australia, Vol. I. Pls. 53 & 54. State Library of Victoria, 1863. Web.
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