thylacine

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  • 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.

  • The male thylacine had a pouch that acted as a protective sheath, covering his external reproductive organs while he ran through thick brush.

  • Most observations were made during the day whereas the thylacine was naturally nocturnal.

  • Their success suggests that it may be feasible to sequence the complete thylacine nuclear genome from museum specimens.

  • The last known wild thylacine was captured in the region in 1933.

  • New marsupial lion, thylacine, and dasyurid material has also been recovered.

  • The size of a small dog, it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936.

  • Thylacines preyed on devils, and devils attacked thylacine young; devils may have hastened the thylacine's extinction.

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