Thylacine was more Tasmanian tiger than marsupial wolf

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
May 3, 2011 11:00 PMMay 17, 2019 9:40 PM
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, explorers in Tasmania brought back tales of a strange creature that looked like a wolf with tiger-like stripes on its haunches. That animal was the thylacine. It was a marsupial, one of several mammals that raise their young in pouches, and more closely related to kangaroos and koalas than to dogs or cats.

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