Image: Thylacine with bird in mouth

Thylacine with bird in mouth. This famous photo is now known to have been staged using a taxidermied Thylacine specimen with a dead chicken placed in its mouth.

Photographer:

Harry Burrell

Rights:

© Australian Museum

Last Updated: 15 July 2009

Tags thylacine, Tasmanian, Tasmanian Tiger, extinct, marsupials, mammals,