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James Cranfield poses with his "ridiculously important and special specimen", which he snapped up at auction. (Supplied: Instagram/@thetaxidermist)
Below its' googly eyes, the taxidermy skull, described and sold as a foxes' head, has now been confirmed as that of a Thylacine. 
The Tasmanian tiger was a carnivorous marsupial that lived in Tasmania but went extinct in 1936 when the last known individual held in captivity passed away. 
Oddities shop owner in the UK, James Cranfield, spotted the specimen in a catalogue, suspected it was most likely the skull of a Tassie Tiger (not a fox!) and purchased it at auction, for the equivalent of about $120,000 Australian dollars. 
It has subsequently been verified by the International Thylacine Specimen Data Base and as one, of only two in the world and could now provide DNA for genome sequencing. 
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