By: Jadeibet Chavez Avila

Tasmanian tiger is also called tasmanian wolf was a large animal in Australia most scientist believe that it is extinct. Fossils indicate that this animal was once common throughout Australia. But it lived only on the island of Tasmania when Europeans began settling the region in the late 1700's. The Europeans hunted the animal because they thought it preyed on sheep and poultry. The last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in Australians often call Tasmanian tigers thylacines.

A tasmanian tiger is about 5 feet tall (1.5 meters ) long, including a tail of about 20 inches (51 centimeters). It had short gray or yellowish-brown fur and dark stripes across the rear of its back

The tasmanian tiger was a marsupial. Like other marsupial, the female tasmanian tiger carried its young in a pouch on its belly. Until they developed more fully. The pouch of the tasmanian tiger was unsual because it opened to the rear of the body. In most other marsupials, the pouch opens to the front.