#thylacine — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thylacine, aggregated by home.social.
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“A new study led by Flinders University has flipped the historical narrative about #Australia's #thylacine, finding the native apex predator known as the ‘ #TasmanianTiger ’ was significantly different from the wolves and wild dogs it was likened to before being hunted to #extinction.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-tiger-wolf-australian-thylacine-skull.html #science #biology #anatomy #genetics #marsupial #tasmania
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Three new ancestors added to #TasmanianTiger's storyline https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ancestors-added-tasmanian-tiger-storyline.html
Three new #thylacinids (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) from late Oligocene deposits of the #Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern #Queensland https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2384595
"#paleontologists say the #NewSpecies are now the oldest members of the #Thylacine family to date, estimated to be 25–23 million years old, making them late #Oligocene in age."