Is the Tasmanian Tiger really extinct? Many people are seeing this creature all over the place.
The Tasmanian Tiger was originally called the Thylacine. Thylacinus cynocephalus which is Greek for dog-headed pouched mammal. Australia and its surrounding islands have some of the weirdest creatures on earth.
Tasmania used to be a connected to Australia back about 14,000 years ago. As sea levels rose the people living on the peninsula became isolated from the rest of the continent until Europeans arrived.
The first European to see Tasmania was Abel Tasman, a Dutch explorer, who arrived in 1642. In 1772 the first Europeans landed on the island, and things went downhill for the locals really fast from there. In 1830 the government decided to push all of the locals from one side of the island to the other by forming a line of people stretching across the island and walking, shoulder to shoulder, or as close as possible and pushing everyone along in front of them. Anyone whose parents didn’t come from Europe that is.