Over 160 Aboriginal rock art depictions of the thylacine have been found across Australia. Aboriginal Australians shared the land with these striped marsupials for tens of thousands of years. 🐺🎨
Over 160 Aboriginal rock art depictions of Thylacine found across Australia
Key facts
- More than 160 depictions of the thylacine have been found across Australia alone, with likely many more in remote areas
- Aboriginal Australians lived alongside the thylacine for tens of thousands of years
- Some Aboriginal rock art styles depicting the thylacine are carbon-dated to shortly before European arrival
- Elder Aboriginals told European explorers in the 1850s that the thylacine could swim, later confirmed by paleontologists studying its remains
- The latest evidence for thylacines on mainland Australia is around 3,000 years ago, with the arrival of the dingo from Southeast Asia likely contributing to its disappearance
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