Thylacine Extinct

"The thylacine was the largest marsupial predator to have survived into historic times. Before the introduction of the dingo to mainland Australia around 4000 years ago it was widespread on the mainland and in New Guinea . . . Thylacines were persecuted into extinction. A bounty was paid on scalps and, as they became rarer, live and even dead animals commanded ever higher prices. The species was finally protected by law in Tasmania in 1936, the year of its extinction. The law came far too late, for the last capture of a wild thylacine had occurred three years earlier. The last thylacine to walk the earth was a female kept in Beaumaris Zoo near Hobart."