Hey Y'all, I'm Having The Same Thoughts

In these pictures, the Swedish Museum of Natural History’s exquisite adult female thylacine wet specimen has been removed from her jar for a 3D scan. Dr. Justin Williams used an Artec Space Spider scanner to image this specimen in submillimeter 3D.

Dr. Williams and his team scanned thylacine specimens from a total of 18 institutions for their research project, which aimed to determine the true size of the thylacine. Their publication is titled: “Did the thylacine violate the costs of carnivory? Body mass and sexual dimorphism of an iconic Australian marsupial.” [x]

OH GAWD *dying sounds* ARCHIVE DID... DID YOU POST NON THYLACINE STUFF ON YOUR THYLACINE ARCHIVE ACCOUNT??!! OH OH GOD

The bottom is gonna be a button :D

BRUH????

Thought y'all might enjoy this.

I used an app to recolor black and white photos of thylacines.

New Thylacine Photos

This is my favorite photo of them

three female thylacine one with a amputation forefoot

some more images of the thylacine you have probably never seen before

TASSIE TIME!!!

I had the chance to visit the Oslo thylacine! It's currently on display at the Museum of Natural History in Oslo, Norway.

It's just SUCH a good specimen, really well preserved for how old it is. It's been in Norway since 1888 but barely has any bad spots unless you look up really close. There was a furless spot on the leg and behind the ear, other than that it looks brand new and almost alive! I keep expecting it to turn its head to look at me, knowing it wouldn't :(

It's also a bit too short for accurate thylacine proportions, but I think that just has to do with how much they stretched the wires in the legs when mounting it. Very accurate otherwise, might be my favorite specimen!

Really happy they gave it a cute environment to be in, too. Before it was just a green stand, now it has a pretty painting and grass around it so it looks like it's still roaming the depths of Tasmania

They also have a skull on display (thylacine on top and grey wolf on bottom, to show examples of convergent evolution), tho I'm almost sure that was a replica. Pretty cool still! They're so small upclose, but the specimen itself is bigger than I thought it'd be

I was overtaken by a deep sense of longing when looking at it. It's strange to think this was a living creature once, but everyone who saw it alive is long gone. But this remains. This mounted animal survived both word wars, it has been on this Earth longer than any human alive today has. If taken care properly, it will be here long after everyone today is gone, remaining a grim reminder to future generations of humanity's greed.

Still, pretty cool. Just wish I could see a living one too. Rest in peace doggo thing.

Bonus: they also had a great auk, which is another animal recently extinct by men. I didn't know about this one at all, it was really cool to see it there!

They are friends

(idk when yellow footed rock wallabies first broke off into an individual species, but perhaps Thylacinus Cynocephalus was on the mainland then)

Also I found the resource I've been looking for to make that art project of thylacinid family tree.

i feel normal about thylacines why do you ask