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Research challenges previously held ideas about thylacine
Researchers found the Tasmanian tiger used a unique snapping bite to catch small prey, challenging the livestock-killer myth that fueled its persecution.
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We Thought the Tasmanian Tiger Was Hunting Like a Wolf: 90 Years Later, His Skull Says Anything Else
For decades, the biology manuals have presented thylacin as living evidence, or rather extinct, that evolution can sculpt two very different species in an almost identical mould. This Australian marsupial, extinct since 1936, looked so much like a wolf that its popular Tasmanian tiger name masked badly: its [...]
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