<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.02 [en] (Win95; I) [Netscape]"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Debbie Hynes"> <META NAME="Classification" CONTENT="science, biology, zoology, palaeontology, paleontology, animals, mammals, marsupials, thylacine, thylacoleo, carnifex, marsupial, lion, wolf, tiger, pleistocene, megafauna, mass extinction"> <META NAME="Description" content="A field research programme intended to discover if Thylacoleo carnifex, an Australian marsupial predator from Pleistocene times, may still be extant."> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Thylacoleo carnifex, thylacoleo, thylacoleonid, carnifex, thylacoleonidae, marsupial, marsupial lion, thylacine, marsupial wolf, marsupial tiger, marsupial predator, pleistocene, holocene, megafauna, palaeontology, paleontology, big cats, Australian big cats, predator, predators, carnivore, carnivores, diprotodon, aboriginal, aborigine, aborigines, dream time, cave painting, rock art, out back, outback"> <TITLE>The Quest for Thylacoleo - In Search of the Marsupial Lion</TITLE>