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The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, Greek for "dog-headed pouched one"), often referred to as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf colloquially, is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupial which lived during from the early Pliocene epoch to the late Holocene epoch. Once widespread throughout Australasia, after the late Holocene, the species' population boiled down to a small population only surviving in Tasmania. Due to people associating attacks on livestock with thylacines, the population further decreased until 1936, when the last confirmed specimen died at the Hobart Zoo. The Zuiyō-maru creature (ニューネッシー Nyū Nesshii, lit. "New Nessie"), or the Zuiyō-maru carcass, was the name given to a carcass discovered by the crew of the Japanese fishing trawler Zuiyō-maru (瑞洋丸) off the coast of New Zealand in 1977. Don't like this article? Refresh the page to see another one!