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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s very sad to imagine that this animal is no more on this earth. It was beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a marsupial, so this is it's threat yawn, similar to how an opossum will yawn at you when frightened.

Real science video on it https://youtu.be/jXYyMFUKpIs

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I love thylacines. Such goofy looking but totally rad creatures. We've done so so much damage...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

There are accounts in Tasmania of seeing thylacines still. I choose to believe that's real and it's not just a Bigfoot kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I just want to give him back scritches. I bet his stripes feel different than the non-stripes. I bet he could gnaw on my arm a bit too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Or mid-scream, as it realized it was an endling?