A 140-year-old Tassie tiger brain sample survived two world wars and made it to our lab. Here's what we found

This is the case of a high-resolution atlas of the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine brain.

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https://theconversation.com/a-140-year-old-tassie-tiger-brain-sample-survived-two-world-wars-and-made-it-to-our-lab-heres-what-we-found-210634https://theconversation.com/a-140-year-old-tassie-tiger-brain-sample-survived-two-world-wars-and-made-it-to-our-lab-heres-what-we-found-210634
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Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Nazism, PNAS, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Awareness, Microscopy, Monash University, Light, Research, Berlin Zoo, Cerebral cortex, Animal, Dog, Textbook, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Environment, Human, Quoll, Hunting, Livestock, Microscope, Brain, New Guinea
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AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA
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  • This is the case of a high-resolution atlas of the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine brain.
  • Similar, but not wolves
    Thylacines were dingo-sized carnivorous marsupials that roamed through Australia and New Guinea prior to human occupation.
  • The arrival of European colonists and the introduction of farming, diseases and hunting bounties quickly led to their extinction.
  • Our ongoing research using dunnarts is also providing new insights about the development and evolution of the mammalian brain.
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