The Thylacine was a marsupial related to kangaroos and is also known as the marsupial lobo or marsupial tiger. Although it resembles the placental wolf, its head was longer and its legs proportionately shorter. Its similarity to mga lobo and Aso is an example of convergent evolution - the evolution of a body shape suited to its role and resembling unrelated mga hayop occupying similar ecological niches.
Early European settlers in Tasmania dubbed it the marsupial wolf, kanggaro wolf, pouched lobo and native wolf, but the scientific name of thylacine is use in modern times. Early literature also...
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