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Tasmanian Tigers Are Extinct. Why Do People Keep Seeing Them? Quirks of the human mind and how we process information might explain the uncanny appearances of thylacines. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, a large, predatory marsupial that ranged across Tasmania and Australia, was declared extinct in 1936.Credit.The Picture Art Collection/Alamy By Asher Elbein The Tasmanian tiger is still extinct. Reports of its enduring survival are greatly exaggerated. Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs than tigers and ranged across Tasmania and the Australia mainland, were declared extinct in 1936. But on Feb. 23, Neil Waters, president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, promised conclusive photographic proof of a surviving thylacine. The four photos, he claimed, showed a family of thylacines, including a juvenile, moving through dense brush. The announcement kicked off a flurry of excitement among wildlife a

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