What are Australian wolves?

Australia has no native wolves, mostly, sort of. All mammals native to Australia and not introduced by humans are marsupials. read more

Indigenous Australian rock paintings indicate that the thylacine lived throughout mainland Australia and New Guinea. Proof of the animal's existence in mainland Australia came from a desiccated carcass that was discovered in a cave in the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia in 1990; carbon dating revealed it to be around 3,300 years old. read more

Australia has no native wolves, mostly, sort of. All mammals native to Australia and not introduced by humans are marsupials. There are marsupials that fulfilled the niche of wolves and other apex predators like the Tasmanian Tiger (extinct since the 20th century) and the Marsupial Lion (extinct for about forty thousand years). read more

Dingoes; Australian Wolves Most Australians would be bemused, to say the least, at the proposition that Australia is home to wolves, but detailed biochemical work has confirmed that the Australian Dingo is indeed Canis lupus (subspecies dingo), derived from a semi-domesticated wolf in Asia some 6000 years ago and brought here by Asian sailors not much more than 4000 years back. read more