0 a striped, meat-eating Australian mammal about the size of a large dog. It is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century (= it no longer exists).
The thylacine was also much less versatile in diet than the omnivorous dingo.
The expansion focuses around extinct animals, mainly dinosaurs or ice age creatures, as well as more recently extinct creatures like the dodo, thylacine and quagga.
Such specialisation probably made the thylacine susceptible to small disturbances to the ecosystem.
European settlers believed the thylacine to prey upon farmers' sheep and poultry.
Travelling circuses and menageries of the time were known to contain what were described as tiger wolves a description that fits the thylacine perfectly.
While the thylacine was extant it preyed on the devil, which targeted young and unattended thylacine cubs in their dens.
Like the modern thylacine, it may have been an awkward runner and used stamina to catch prey rather than speed.
The thylacine was able to open its jaws to an unusual extent: up to 120 degrees.
