Recent sightings may indicate one of the most famous extinct mammals could still be with us. The search is on.
Two Tasmanian Tigers, seen before their extinction in the 1930s.
The last thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was thought to have died in a zoo in 1936, the victim of ignorance and neglect on the part of its keepers .
The carnivorous marsupial, whose range once extended throughout Australia, was already rare and confined to Tasmania when European colonists arrived in the early 19th century.
