Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. Octavo, paperback, photographs, text illustrations.

Covers the thylacine from evolution to extinction to fiction and presents the best evidence to date for the species’ post-1936 survival. This is a comprehensive exploration of this unique animal. Until the mid-20th century, the thylacine was the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions. Alternately portrayed as both a scourge and high value commodity, the thylacine’s ecology and behaviour were known only anecdotally. In recent years, its taxonomic position, ecology, behaviour and body size have all been re-examined scientifically, while advances in genetics have presented the potential for de-extinction.