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The thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian Tiger, remains one of Australia’s most identifiable animals despite having gone extinct almost 100 years ago. In its time, it was hunted, mishandled and neglected, yet people are still captivated by it today. They desperately hope the animal still exists in hiding, and one scientist at the University of Melbourne is on the brink of a discovery unlike any other...one that could reverse the fate of the thylacine and right the wrongs of the past. This week on Uncurated, Aania Tandon and Sasha Gattermayr explore the story of this mystical animal and why it has not been forgotten.

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Interviewees:
Rohan Long - Curator, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at The University of Melbourne
Professor Andrew Pask - Professor in Epigenetics at The University of Melbourne

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from SoundCloud, Incompetech, Adobe Sound and Youtube under relevant licensing agreements:

Ethereal - "Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Galvanic Birds by Jade Then - https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/jade-then-galvanic-birds

News bites - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxwLMXyuHfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUMuY98X_4 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZGy56gk8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_gL2EIhmk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEKGLjzjBE

This episode also referred to the following for research purposes:

Jeff Sparrow - Provocations: New and Selected Writing (Chapter- What if we found a thylacine?) 

The thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian Tiger, remains one of Australia’s most identifiable animals despite having gone extinct almost 100 years ago. In its time, it was hunted, mishandled and neglected, yet people are still captivated by it today. They desperately hope the animal still exists in hiding, and one scientist at the University of Melbourne is on the brink of a discovery unlike any other...one that could reverse the fate of the thylacine and right the wrongs of the past. This week on Uncurated, Aania Tandon and Sasha Gattermayr explore the story of this mystical animal and why it has not been forgotten.
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Interviewees:
<ul>
<li>Rohan Long - Curator, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at The University of Melbourne</li>
<li>Professor Andrew Pask - Professor in Epigenetics at The University of Melbourne</li>
</ul>
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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from SoundCloud, Incompetech, Adobe Sound and Youtube under relevant licensing agreements:
Ethereal - "Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ </a>
Galvanic Birds by Jade Then - <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/jade-then-galvanic-birds">https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/jade-then-galvanic-birds</a>
News bites - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxwLMXyuHfM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxwLMXyuHfM </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUMuY98X_4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUMuY98X_4 </a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZGy56gk8Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZGy56gk8Y</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_gL2EIhmk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_gL2EIhmk </a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEKGLjzjBE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEKGLjzjBE</a>
This episode also referred to the following for research purposes:
Jeff Sparrow - Provocations: New and Selected Writing (Chapter- What if we found a thylacine?)

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia. 

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia.

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