#Tasmanian Tiger

[lizlagomorph]

Word 21: Destiny Thylacines were hunted into extinction.

[sneepsnorp3d]

Low poly Thylacine says AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i love you thylacine......................

[plusie]

🤎 - thylacine plushies!!

[weepingwidar]

Angela Gram (American, 1985) - Endling (2022)

[brothermoth]

i miss them

[tea-slur]

The Thylacine Sew-On Patch is now available on my Ko-fi shop!!

You can find my shop using this link here, or by using the linktree in my bio!!

[ferntern]

Thylacine studies from the colorized footage.

[cathchicken]

Molly

My final painting for my thesis… but, heheh, not the final one I’ll complete… painting number 5 keep evading my attention… I need to complete it too!!!

[moonlight-wolf-archive]

Colorized Thylacines pt. 3

[alex-fictus]

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!

[extinctionstories]

This 36x48” oil on canvas diptych is part of a series I’ve been working on based on the thylacine, also known as the “Tasmanian Tiger” or marsupial wolf.

One of my biggest interests has always been animals, and in particular the ones that humans have destroyed. Every lost or vanishing species is its own story, and as an illustrator theirs are the stories that I am the most invested in telling (hence the blog).

The thylacine is one of the classic examples of human-caused extinction: an utterly unique creature, deliberately exterminated due to a combination of greed, ignorance, hubris, and fear.

Scared or anxious marsupials have a habit of stretching their jaws in a display known as a yawn (you’ve probably seen memes of opossums that look like they’re yelling—it’s the same thing). This display was especially striking in the thylacine, which could open its jaw to over 90°. Some of the most famous photos of thylacines capture them in this attitude of fear.

Unfortunately for the thylacine, humans have more direct methods of dealing with the things that scare them.

The title of this pair of paintings is ‘When They Are Frightened, They Show Their Teeth’.

The overall series is called ‘Here Be Monsters’, as a nod to both the far-flung environs of the thylacine, and the behavior of those who intruded upon it.

Stay tuned for more.

[olessan]

The central continent of my worldbuilding world is dominated by marsupials and monotremes, and birds. There are several species of thylacine, and one — which is essentially our Thylacinus cynocephalus — is domesticated.

They are a recent domestication, with about 250 generations having passed. Compared to the wild ancestors, they have similar builds, but with more colours, variation in size, and longer lifespans (12-20 years). They have lost their natural reclusive nature and though shy, are friendly and inquisitive and trainable to a point. Most prefer to be solitary or tolerate the presence of 1-2 others, though get along well with other calm-tempered species. Their prey drive is greatly reduced but many suffer anxiety in loud or busy environments.

Lil update: If you would like fancy thylacines to put places, I turned this into a poster/prints, and there's also a sticker <3

[frognapsart]

A little thylacine :)

[sythgara]

Tasmanian tigers were such unique looking animals

[rogerrrroger]

Sniper with a pet thylacine? I think he deserves one

HAHA honestly I thought it was a Pokémon when I read the name because I only ever call them tassy tigers

Despite me wanting them to not go extinct I have no doubt that saxton hale would have hunted them to extinction years before

[rubybug]

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