.    Welcome to The Thylacine Journey, a division of The Thylacine Museum.  Through a series of pictorial travelogues, this website will present my ongoing natural history studies of the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus).  Along with its parent site, The Thylacine Museum, the primary function of The Thylacine Journey is to assist in heightening public awareness and appreciation of this unique marsupial.

    Hopefully the first of many to come, chapter one of this site describes my October 2002 visit to the Australian Museum (Sydney).  There, a DNA extraction project was begun in 1999 to recover the complete genome of the thylacine from tissues which have been preserved in alcohol for nearly a century and a half.  It is hoped that eventually, thylacines could be cloned using this preserved genetic material.