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Enduring mystery of the Tasmanian tiger  -  Sep 6, 2008
Huddersfield Examiner,THE last captive specimen of the Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo on September 7, 1936 – but could the species still be out there in the wild?

Ride like the devil in Tasmania  -  Aug 30, 2008
Independent,Dark, too, is the history of the fabled Tasmanian tiger – not actually a tiger, but a large dog-like marsupial with stripes on its back and large jaws.

Devils creep in for the kill  -  Sep 22, 2008
PerthNow,There is wholly unpleasant talk about the devil going the same way as the Tasmanian tiger. "We dont have it here (in the northwest),'' Mr King says of the

Tiger Airways Doubles Flights to Tasmania  -  Aug 29, 2008
Tasmanian Government Media Releases (press release),The Acting Minister for Tourism, Michelle O’Byrne, said today Tiger Airways’ decision to boost its Tasmanian services even further was a great vote of

Tiger Airways to increase flights between Melbourne and Tasmania  -  Aug 31, 2008
Peanuts! Low Cost Airline News,Tiger Airways announced that it will increase the number of flights it operates to double daily between Melbourne and both of its Tasmanian destinations of

Tiger cubs win hearts in Brisbane  -  Sep 4, 2008
Ninemsn,...animals disappear forever," she said. National Threatened Species Day is celebrated every year on September 7, the day the last Tasmanian tiger died.

National Threatened Species Day  -  Sep 1, 2008
The Westender,September 7 is the day in 1936 when the last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in Hobart Zoo. With twenty per cent of Australia's animal and plant species

Opening of Tarkine Hotel at Corinna  -  Sep 18, 2008
e-Travel Blackboard (press release),The last sighting of the Tasmanian Tiger was near Corinna. There are endless stories of tough pioneering times to be shared at Corinna.

Garrett urged to protect cave art from extraction  -  Sep 12, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,They depict ancient Aboriginal figures climbing a ship's mast, a Tasmanian tiger, whales, kangaroos, emus and thousands of Aboriginal ceremonies.

Threatened bird's future takes a tern for the better at Lake Illawarra  -  Sep 4, 2008
Illawara Mercury,Sunday marks National Threatened Species Day and also the 72nd anniversary of the death of the last Tasmanian tiger in captivity. But Mr Dawson is confident

Twilight in the Industrial Era  -  Sep 18, 2008
WorldChangingWe are not our grandparents, though, and their world is as extinct as the Tasmanian tiger. Really, what we ought to worry about (and hunger for) are those

Kangaroo species face extinction  -  Aug 30, 2008
Courier Mail,Threatened Species Day is held on September 7 each year to mark the day in 1936 when the last Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo.

Demands on state league squashed  -  Sep 16, 2008
Northwest Tasmania Advocate,BY CHLOE HOPE The club had a number of "boxes to be ticked" when its members voted yes to the proposed Tasmanian State League last week.

Geeves grateful for dad's job advice  -  Aug 31, 2008
CricInfo.com,If it wasn't for some frank words from his father, Brett Geeves would have been toiling away in a manual labour job in the miserable, wintry Tasmania

Better the devil you know . . .  -  Aug 12, 2008
Daily Advertiser,A HOME away from home in Tumut could be the answer to stopping the Tasmanian Devil’s rapid descent down the same path as the Tasmanian Tiger – extinction.

Humans wiped out prehistoric kangaroos: uni  -  Aug 11, 2008
Illawara Mercury,..."It was the same in the case of the Tasmanian tiger, by the time they realised they needed to save the species, the last one was dying in Hobart Zoo.

Threatened Tasmanian devils have more sex: researcher  -  Jul 21, 2008
AFPIt is Australia's largest marsupial carnivore after the extinction last century of its distant cousin, the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger.

Artist beats the odds with $50000 win  -  Aug 1, 2008
NEWS.com.au,Hidden in the bush is a Tasmanian Tiger, which was the main subject of McWilliam's 2005 prize-winning painting The Centre of Attention.

Economically, Tasmania not on radar  -  Jul 17, 2008
The Australian,The spottings of rugby league, union or soccer players down south are rarer than recorded sightings of the Tasmanian tiger.

Hoarding heaven  -  Jul 23, 2008
The Age,Tasmanian postcards, Vespas, Barbie dolls and a 19th-century pin cushion made from the jawbone of a Tasmanian Tiger as the mystery object,

Australia's ancient Aboriginal rock art at risk, experts say  -  Jul 24, 2008
AFPImages carved onto the red rocks scattering the landscape include kangaroos, lizards and emu tracks as well as the extinct native Tasmanian tiger which died

Threatened wildlife calls Yass home  -  Jul 24, 2008
Yass Tribune,This day was chosen in memory of "Benjamin", the last Tasmanian Tiger who died on that day in 1936 in Hobart Zoo. Entry forms, teaching materials and

City writer launches dynamic debut  -  Jul 19, 2008
Edinburgh Evening News,Then the last was about apparent sightings of the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, which was selling, but the publisher went bust," he shrugs.

Corporate tyrants drown out footy fans  -  Apr 23, 2008
NEWS.com.au,I saw the Poms win a Test at the MCG a few years ago (as I write that I feel like the last man to have seen a Tasmanian tiger) and the Barmy Army sang them

Vaccine hope for dying Tasmanian devils  -  Mar 31, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,...marsupial carnivores and Australians are determined that they are not allowed to follow the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, on the path to extinction.

Tasmanian devils - Cedric to the rescue!  -  Apr 5, 2008
Blather (satire),Tasmanian Devils - now the largest carnivorous marsupial following the apparent demise of the thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger - are threatened by the bizarre

Night at the museum  -  Apr 6, 2008
The Age,...if they could find a thylacine," says Nicolas Cage, on set at the Melbourne Museum, who requested his photo be taken in front of the Tasmanian tiger.

Storm Cat slowing down at age 25  -  Apr 8, 2008
Daily Racing Form (subscription),Among them were $9.7 million Jalil in 2005, $8 million Mr. Sekiguchi in 2004, $6.8 million Tasmanian Tiger in 2000, $6.4 million Van Nistelrooy in 2001,

Nic Cage Hangs Out With Special Friend In Melbourne  -  Apr 6, 2008
Defamer Australia,Yes, that's a thylacine; apparently Cage "requested his photo be taken in front of the Tasmanian tiger". We don't know what's best about it: Cage's ultra

Go, creased lightning!  -  Apr 5, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,Save the Sceptic, will be launched in an attempt to stop this bizarre, often colourful creature going the way of the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger.

Aussie assault at De Niro filmfest  -  Apr 4, 2008
The Australian,Director Jody Dwyer will foist a horror film, Dying Breed, based on the legends of the Tasmanian tiger and penal colony escapee and cannibal Alexander

Images from a time before the pyramids and Stonehenge  -  Apr 4, 2008
The Age,The older art depicts megafauna and the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. Mr Mulvaney believes the rock art continued until 1868, when the Yaburara tribe was

Cedric is only hope as disease hits Tasmanian devil  -  Mar 31, 2008
Independent,...described this as the most promising development of their five-year battle to prevent the creatures from going the way of the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

No trip to the Caribbean for injured Hilfenhaus  -  Apr 15, 2008
Northwest Tasmania Advocate,The Tasmanian Tiger had been selected as part of the squad to visit the Caribbean but will now miss out on his chance to make his Test debut.

Balancing Act April 2008  -  Apr 9, 2008
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)I had seen the last moa, the last Tasmanian tiger. I missed him greatly. I missed his hard work, his routine, his ancient grindstone and his huge bell.

Animation studio makes its mark  -  Apr 8, 2008
Blue Mountains Gazette,The 35-year-old visual effects specialist recently got the Tasmanian Tiger back on its feet for Fox television series Dying Breed.

Types of Social Media Content - A Conceptual Overview  -  Apr 8, 2008
Search Engine WatchNews/Resource - an example of this type of content might be a post on a recent sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger (the News), in which it shows a comprehensive

Climate change threatens the extinction of Australian mammals  -  Apr 1, 2008
ABC Online,Experts warn that many Australian mammals are in danger of suffering the same fate as the Tasmanian Tiger, as changes in climate threaten to make many

Where the grass was greener  -  22 Feb 2008
Real Footy,In this respect, he resembles the Tasmanian Tiger. Crosswell, who was from the midlands, had a near contemporary from Burnie named Johnny Greening.

Tassie tiger or fox? Swipe its barcode and just end the argument  -  Feb 18, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,Were those droppings in the hen house really left by the Tasmanian tiger you are sure you saw last night? These questions, and countless others,

Tiger country may now be elsewhere  -  Feb 9, 2008
The Mercury,TASMANIAN tiger sighting in Victoria has reignited the theory that the species may have been introduced to the mainland before it became extinct in this

No happy homecoming for Watson  -  Jan 23, 2008
The Age,It has been a homecoming to remember for ex-Tasmanian Tiger Shane Watson at Hobart - for all the wrong reasons. In his first game at Bellerive Oval against

Cold Spring Harbor fights Tasmanian devil cancer  -  Jan 24, 2008
Newsday,Back in Tasmania, Murchison noted, saving the devil is seen as vital - another native, the Tasmanian tiger, has already vanished. Tasmania remains "quite a

The Bulletin had 'em all talking  -  Jan 24, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,So we splashed with a cover offering a $1.25 million reward for the capture of a live Tasmanian tiger. Packer fell silent when he heard his money was being

All Men Are Liars  -  Feb 4, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,...is like the low snuffling of a Tasmanian Tiger cub, so rarely is it heard in modern Australia ... The list of famous male Australian teetotalers is not a

Haul of fake DVDs and CDs found  -  Jan 28, 2008
Burnley Citizen,...three further XBOX console DVDs of Ty The Tasmanian Tiger and three DVDs entitled F1 05 for the Playstation II console . All of the titles were fake and

Michael, Margaret and Dorian, Secret Science Club Founders  -  Nov 28, 2007
Gothamist,Our most recent book is "Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger," which is about our search for an extinct marsupial predator.

Landor refreshes Oz lager  -  Nov 27, 2007
Design Week,The fiercely Australian packaging features the brand’s iconic Tasmanian tiger with a contemporary twist, as part of an intensive strategic programme by

Cancer threatens devil  -  Nov 10, 2007
London Free Press,He fears the renowned devil may be headed down the same path as its cousin the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger. The marsupial, which looked like a dog,

One eye to the keyhole  -  Nov 2, 2007
The Age,At least he can say he's seen a Tasmanian tiger. "When I was probably about four years old, my grandmother took me around to this so-called zoo which was in

Little devils help out a Tassie icon  -  Nov 5, 2007
ABC Regional Online,..."I don't want them to die like the Tasmanian Tiger died,� says Nic. “I thought I could help and I have." Nic started a fund raiser at his school called

21:11 Rare talks Piñata's Future, Banjo-Kazooie, Killer Instinct ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
Xboxic...which was instead developed by Australian team Krome Studios, best known for its three decent Ty the Tasmanian Tiger efforts in the past.

On their games  -  Nov 19, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,More than 85 per cent of Australian games companies have developed intellectual property, such as Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.

The Outstation of Balma: Gapuwiyak Day Four  -  Nov 20, 2007
ABC Message Stick,...'Imagine the fossils at the bottom of that,' smiles Donna, 'You'd probably find the Tasmanian Tiger!' Apparently, one time some balanda jumped over the edge

Tigers’ mood exciting and positive  -  Nov 18, 2007
Eastern Shore Sun,By TIM MACDONALD* CELEBRATING team and individual success is a big part of the Tasmanian Tiger ethos, and it has been great to be able to have the chance to

Viva Pinata: Party Animals  -  Nov 15, 2007
Ve3d.comSee, Krome, of Spyro and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger fame, know how to do kids games. Mostly, they're harmless fun with a decent sense of humour and solid

ART MARKET WATCH  -  Nov 14, 2007
Artnet,Manhattan dealer David mckee won Martin Puryear’s 1982 ring-like wall sculpture, Thylacine, a work named after the extinct Tasmanian tiger, for $713000.

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