Australian Geographic — May-June 2017

(Chris Devlin) #1

The preserved body of a
three-month-old thylacine
pouch pup in a jar, in the hands of
Kathryn Medlock, the Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery’s
curator of vertebrate zoology, is
a poignant memento of a unique
vanished species.


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