Tasmanian Tiger remains lost to time

Lucy Stone
Updated March 28 2017 - 2:52pm, first published 8:00am
Species end: A thylacine male at the QVMAG Natural Sciences museum. This male was collected before 1897, when there were still living thylacines. Picture: Scott Gelston
Species end: A thylacine male at the QVMAG Natural Sciences museum. This male was collected before 1897, when there were still living thylacines. Picture: Scott Gelston

On display in Launceston’s Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery is a one-of-a-kind item: a rug sewn together of nine thylacine skins.

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Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

Local government reporter, The Examiner

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