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The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a 'large predator' – but it was only half as heavy as we thought

  • Written by Douglass Rovinsky, PhD Candidate, Monash University
The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a 'large predator' – but it was only half as heavy as we thoughtSmithsonian Institution/colourised by D.S. Rovinsky

Until it was hunted to extinction, the thylacine – also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf – was the world’s largest marsupial predator. However, our new research shows it was in fact only about half as large as previously thought. So perhaps it wasn’t such a...

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