thylacine

IPA: θˈaɪɫʌsˈin

A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.

Examples of "thylacine" in Sentences

This week's Animal Oddity is about a bizarre-looking species called a thylacine that was hunted to extinction based on what now seems to be a false assumption about its behavior.
I first ran across the thylacine aka “Tasmanian tiger” or “Tasmanian wolf” when I was preparing to teach a summer course on vertebrate zoology for a local Catholic college during grad school.
Canis dingo is a placental mammalian carnivore of doglike shape and size, whereas the thylacine was a marsupial mammalian carnivore of doglike shape and size, and maybe they were too similar for comfort.
Print Extinct Australian thylacine hunted like a big cat The extinct Australian carnivore known as a thylacine was an ambush predator that could not outrun its prey over long distances, a new analysis shows.
I think about the folks of the International Society of Cryptozoology, an innocent group of impassioned hobbyists who like to travel and dream and make elaborately careful collections of anecdotal evidence regarding improbable beasts, and among whom the thylacine is an icon.