TASSIE TIME!!!

Constellation Corinna

i also do art! Idk if y'all knew that I only have like two other drawings I've posted on here. But it's not just historical photo recolors and stuff!

Sorry it's blurry

This painting is currently taped to my wall so I had to climb on my bed to get a photo LOL

Preserved adult thylacines

Thylacine art on an Australian stamp first day cover from 1962.

Captive thylacine, c.1920′s. [x]

A woman looks into a diorama of three Thylacines, date and location unknown. [ x ]

Rare 200-year-old clay pipe depicting thylacine dubbed the 'holy grail' of Tasmanian archaeology - ABC News

A clay pipe depicting a Tasmanian tiger has the archaeology community in a buzz.

The pipe’s finder was an amateur bottle digger who found it sandwiched between two larger bottles at the base of a pit on a private property near Launceston in 2016.

The collector then sold the pipe as an unwanted item.

Stephen Sleightholme, from the International Thylacine Specimen Database, snapped up the pipe at auction.

i miss thylacines

Hi!!! I baguely remember a photo of a thylacine with a joey poking out of the pouch and it stuck with me a lot because it surprised me to learn their pouch opened backwards, but I can't for the live of me to find it. Do you perhaps have it around? Thank you!!

Hello! Thank you for the ask!

I have a few ideas what the photo you are looking for might be.

First is the Buckland and Springbay mother and pups photo. This was a taxidermy that was later destroyed, however portrays a joey emerging from the pouch:

Next is the family group from the Washington zoo:

(portrait done by Joseph M Gleeson of the Washington zoo family)

This was a mother and 3 Joey's that were brought into the national zoo in Washington DC. The Joey in the pouch ended up passing away in September unfortunately.

Beaumaris zoo group:

This was a mama with an extended pouch from four Joeys. In the film where the keepers are getting them into the den for the night her pouch is easily seen moving as she walks.

Lastly pictographs:

These are a collection of pictographs from around mainland Australia that depict Thylacinus Cynocephalus. Note the two middle on the left that have an extra tail, showcasing young in the pouch.

This doesn't show the pouch but it's one of my favorites.

If none of these are it and you have more ideas on what the picture may be let me know! Send as many asks as you'd like! As far as I know I'm aware of all or at least the majority of thylacine media.

I spend a lot of time in archives *sob*

-Top pictured is one of the Burrell photographs. Which were edited to be close ups to depict a 'thylacine in the wild' later debunked to be a captive thylacine.

-Middle pictured is the Wilfred batty thylacine which is the last recorded thylacine shot in the wild.

-Bottom pictured is the Beaumaris zoo family group.

This is a portrait of them done at the national zoo in Washington DC by Gleeson.

She is thought to be depicted as the Joey in the pouch as at the size and predicted age the mother would not allow the Joey into the pouch so it was suspected the mother allowed her because she was sick. Poor baby. She passed in September when the family arrived in July.

Juvenile female thylacine skin and skull from the Smithsonian NMNH (USNM 115365). [x]

This individual was one of three pouch young that arrived along with an adult female; sadly, she was the only one of the joeys that did not survive to adulthood. She died in 1902 shortly after her family’s arrival at the National Zoo.

Size comparison of this skin to a full-grown adult (actually her male littermate) below from @thebrainscoop​ [x]. So smol :’(