The thylacine or Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in the 1980s, but its spirit lives on in Nannup, a tiny WA town obsessed with the animal.
, but a tiny town in Western Australia's South West believes the ancient marsupial never really left.
The thylacine — better known as the Tasmanian tiger — was a carnivorous marsupial which once roamed the entirety of Australia.It died out on the mainland thousands of years ago, and the last one left in Tasmania perished in a Hobart zoo in 1936. "Tassie tigers" were declared extinct in the 1980s.It is known as the Nannup Tiger.True believersThey tell stories of unexplained prints and huge creatures with bodies like a dog and tails like a kangaroo.
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