Thylacine
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The most awesome marsupial to ever live. It had [pouches] on both sexes, five full toes on the front (no lame dew claw like dogs), and could jump just like a kangaroo! It had stripes on its back (from eleven to twenty one, typically). It was the best.
Sadly, when extinct in [1936] on the 7th of September due to the inaccessibility to shelter and the idiots at the [Hobart] Zoo.
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A doglike carnivorous marsupial with stripes across the rump, found only in Tasmania. There have been no confirmed sightings since one was captured in 1933, and it is probably now extinct.
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a striped, meat-eating Australian mammal about the size of a large dog. It is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century (= it no longer exists) .
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