Here Is The Smithsonian Thylacine As It Currently Appears In The Museum’s Hall Of Mammals. This Individual

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!

General Zoology. Written by Mary J. Guthrie and John M. Anderson. 1957.

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I've always liked this image bc it really shows the differences between thylacine and wolf skulls

Things to note about thylacine skulls:

-thylacine eye sockets lie "deeper" into the skull

-no stop whatsoever

-8 upper incisors (rather than six), different (pre)molars

-Skull is bottle shaped when viewed from the top

You’ve seen art of wolves under aurora borealis, well here’s a literal polar opposite

There's a lot of angles of the skin we're missing

But I know a Thylacine's stripes are often compared to finger prints

(these are just observations)

1. Highlighted: branches of Benjamin's stripes where they connect to each other within the fur pattern.

Most are connected visibly on the photograph, while the skin only has one major visible branch.

We have witnessed museum specimens losing coloration before so that could be a theory as why the pelt is different if it is Benjamin.

2. Next is these two marks that I can't tell if their stripes or scars that Benjamin had. I don't know if the skin is cut where those marks would be visible or not.

Again just observations ^^

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three female thylacine one with a amputation forefoot

This is an awesome book

I definitely recommend it

Sorry if you’ve already said, but what’s the book you’ve been reading about thylacines?