Is it a tiger? Is it a wolf? No, it's a thylacine!

The thylacine, also sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is a marsupial that lived in Tasmania. Watch the short video below with ISL (Irish Sign Language) to learn about this elusive predator and what happened to the last thylacine, who was called Benjamin.

 

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Thylacine Colouring Sheet 

Now you know about the thylacine, bring your own to life with our colouring sheet below. Once you have coloured in the thylacine why not visit the Dead Zoo Lab in the National Museum at Collins Barracks to see our specimen up close?