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Thylacine
Known as the Tasmanian tiger because of the dark stripes across its back, the thylacine was a carnivorous marsupial scientifically named Thylacinus cynocephalus. Its long muzzle and doglike outline contrasted with its marsupial ancestry. Tasmania was its final refuge, but the species had also lived on mainland Australia and in New Guinea. It hunted animal prey, including wallabies and other kangar...
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Sthenurus
Fossils of Sthenurus document an extinct genus of heavily built, short-faced kangaroos from Australia, including species known from the Pleistocene. It belongs to Sthenurinae, a subfamily within Macropodidae, rather than a separate family called Sthenuridae. Some species were large enough for body-mass estimates to exceed 100 kilograms, although size varied and estimates should not be treated as a...
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