Marsupials are found almost in Australia and certain surrounding islands such as tasmania. They died out in most of the rest of the world. It is believed that this animal became extinct on the mainland of Australia long ago because it could not compete for food with an introduced species, the dingo, a kind of wild dog.
An unknown disease decimated the remaining population in 1910. By 1933 it was believed that the species had become extinct in the wild. In 1936, the last known tasmanian tiger-wolf died in captivity. It is was called as Benjamin.
Although the species was believed extinct, reports of tiger-wolves in the wild continued. The species received protection from the Australian government, and the search to find any remaining tiger-wolves began. Expeditions in the 1930s, 40s and 60s found no tasmanian tiger-wolf.
However, possible evidence that the species was not extinct surfaced when it was claimed that a young male tasmanian tiger-wolf had been accidentally killed on the west coast of Tasmania in 1961. Had the tasmanian tiger-wolf survived in the wild all those years? Was this young male the last of his kind, or were there more survivors?
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