Nerding out on these twin papers using neat science to overturn traditional beliefs about animals:
@weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social et al. show morphology isn't dead and the thylacine has a chimeric skull that's more snap predator than sheep-killing-marsupial wolf.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Skull morphology of the extinct Tasmanian tiger suggests unique biting style - Nature Communications
The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show that its skull functioned differ...
