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Tasmanian in sentence

26 examples of Tasmanian in a sentence

The Tasmanian devil has shown us that, not only can cancer be a contagious disease, but it can also threaten an entire species with extinction.
So first of all, what is a Tasmanian devil?
The Tasmanian devil got its name from the terrifying nocturnal scream that it makes.
The Tasmanian devil is predominantly a scavenger, and it uses its powerful jaws and its sharp teeth to chomp on the bones of rotting dead animals.
[The] Tasmanian devil is found only on the island of Tasmania, which is that small island just to the south of the mainland of Australia.
In fact, growing up in Tasmania, it always was incredibly exciting when we got a chance to see a Tasmanian devil in the wild.
But the Tasmanian devil population has been undergoing a really extremely fast decline.
The story begins in 1996 when a wildlife photographer took this photograph here of a Tasmanian devil with a large tumor on its face.
And yet, she was feeding three little baby Tasmanian devils in her pouch.
In fact, in the area where she comes from, more than 90 percent of the Tasmanian devil population has already died of this disease.
Scientists around the world were intrigued by this cancer, this infectious cancer, that was spreading through the Tasmanian devil population.
But that is where the Tasmanian devil cancer has acquired an absolutely amazing evolutionary adaptation.
And the answer came from studying the Tasmanian devil cancer's DNA.
He's a Tasmanian devil that we found with a large tumor on his face.
Well the next breakthrough came from studying hundreds of Tasmanian devil cancers from all around Tasmania.
That means that all of these cancers actually are the same cancer that arose once from one individual devil, that have broken free of that first devil's body and spread through the entire Tasmanian devil population.
So this Tasmanian devil cancer is perhaps the ultimate cancer.
And just as the Tasmanian devil cancer is contagious through the spread of living cancer cells, so is this dog cancer.
My personal aim is to defeat the Tasmanian devil cancer.
Let's prevent the Tasmanian devil from being the first animal to go extinct from cancer.
Why couldn't it be a Tasmanian devil?
And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.
Thylacine, Tasmanian devil?
That Tasmanian devil's not even going to know it gave birth.
It is, shortly, going to think it's got the ugliest Tasmanian devil baby in the world, so maybe it'll need some help to keep it going.
This is an under-appreciated Western, perhaps due to the unorthodox casting on a Tasmanian native as the lead.