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One very interesting detail of thylacine

One very interesting detail of thylacine One little detail about the book and TV-series "Arthur C. Clarke's mysterious world" is that in this book we will meet our friend "thylacine"(1), or "Tasmanian Tiger", and I sometimes have thought that this animal has something, what people don't want to tell to a great audience. So the question is, why Clarke choose that animal in the book that tells about great mysteries? The "thylacine" died because of hunting and the last known individual died in the zoo in the year 1933. That animal seems like a mixture of German Shepherd and opossum(1), and it hunted like the opossum. But it was bigger than it. But the biggest species of opossums is 90 cm long, and that means that it can also be very big.  But then we can think another possibility, that another marsupial "Tasmanian devil" has been killed that very interesting animal, and the reason would be that thylacine was no