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Thylacine skull study challenges the predator myth behind its extinction
Key Takeaways
- Researchers say thylacine jaws were probably unsuited to holding down large animals like sheep.
- The study argues the marsupial’s skull combined features unlike those of living carnivorous mammals.
- The findings challenge one of the long-standing myths used to justify the species’ eradication.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org