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POV u have a mild obsession

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Biggest batch of Thylacines my sister and I have ever made! 16, plus one I found in a box that was left over from last year. 17 little jackets, they're all prepared to head out to their new companions all over the world!

All of these have sold already, but if you want to know when I make more the best way is to sign up for notifications on the Thylacine listing over on my website (www.palaeoplushies.com)

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I've restocked Thylacines

I'm thinking of making them little "Emotional Support Thylacine" vests for them and sending them out as a little free bonus for this batch cuz I feel like folks might need that right now...

This is just concept art but I think I know what I'm doing tomorrow...

Thylacines available over here: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/thylacine-thylacinus-cynocephalus-h58t4

Note: If people like the jacket idea, all orders placed before I make them will also come with a jacket. Subsequent orders will also have jackets for this batch. I probably won't make them again in future unless people REALLY like them. The jacket design is subject to change from the photo!

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Thylacine excerpt from Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Old World by Francis Harper (1945).

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eternally sad for thylacines

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“The 110-year-old Tasmanian tiger head however was skinned and preserved in ethanol - enabling researchers to piece together most of its DNA sequence and strands of RNA.”

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@extinctionstories hit a big milestone today: one THOUSAND followers! 🎉

Thank you SO much for all of the support and interest during this blog’s first year and a half, and for helping me to share the stories of these incredible lost & endangered species! 🦤

In honor of the occasion, here’s a special behind-the-scenes studio peek: the original 11x14” preliminary oil studies for my thylacine diptych When They Are Frightened, They Show Their Teeth:

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There's a Banksia woodland nearby where I live. It's almost untouched by humans (no paths, litter, etc, only a few weeds here and there, but not many) and has extremely high biodiversity, characteristic of this ecosystem.

I visited it the other day and sat beneath the glorious, low-lying canopy of Banksia attenuata, and began imagining a thylacine prowling through the bushes looking for bandicoots as they would have done 2000+ years ago here in Noongar country.

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Australian megafauna. Found book plate.

Marsupials including thylacine, thylacoleo and diprotodon.

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Word 21: Destiny Thylacines were hunted into extinction.

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13/20 Thylacine! I almost didn’t include the stripes, I don’t think you would’ve recognized it without them.

Get this sticker here!

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On this day in 1936, the last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species. Also known as the “Tasmanian wolf,” the thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator. It sported a dog-like form, with distinctive stripes, and a jaw that could open up to 80 degrees—one of the largest gapes of any mammal.

The thylacine fed primarily on small mammals and birds. Nocturnal and shy, it was seldom seen by humans. However, beginning in the 19th century, settlers believed the animals threatened their livestock and, spurred on by a bounty offered by the government, hunted them relentlessly. Attempts at protecting the species in the wild came too late: Despite numerous unconfirmed reports of sightings in recent decades, no definitive sightings have occurred since the 1930s.

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Newly discovered thylacine photos depicting a deceased individual from Melbourne Zoo, 1902

Source: tasmanian_tiger_page on Insta

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🤎 - thylacine plushies!!

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tattoo-esque thylacine