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3D scans of Tasmanian tiger’s skull reveal it had crocodile-style snapping jaws

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par Vera Weisbecker, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Andrew Pask, Professor, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Douglass S Rovinsky, Associate Research Scientist, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

Some 90 years after the death of the last documented thylacine – better known as the Tasmanian tiger – the species remains a global symbol of human-made extinction.

The carnivorous marsupial fell victim to 19th-century colonists’ perception that unfamiliar creatures were primitive, vermin-like imitations of more familiar European animals. The species was later exterminated due to sensationalist claims that it was a ferocious, wolf-like predator of sheep.

However, our new

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