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Tasmanian Tiger’s Skull Reveals Hunting Style with No Modern Match


In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from Flinders University, the University of Melbourne and the Australian Museum argue that the thylacine’s skull was not simply a marsupial copy of a canid’s, but a unique combination of traits with no living analogue.

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