AdvertisementBack From The Dead? Reported Sightings Fuel Hope For Return Of Tasmanian TigersMarch 30, 2017Merrit KennedyColin DwyerfacebookEmailThe Thylacinus cynocephalus, a masupial known by many by the name "Tasmanian tiger," has been merely the stuff of sketches for decades. Here is a print of the animals first published in Louisa Anne Meredith's 1880 Tasmanian friends and foes: feathered, furred and finned. (Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office)