"Despite having a fossil history spanning over 20 million years, the #thylacine is often presented in both scientific literature and popular culture as an evolutionary singleton"
#phylogeny https://t.co/Jx0GDkqCVA Rovinsky et al. 2019 https://t.co/AEd5H4jIY5
#actuallivingscientist @DSRovinsky studies pre-Pleistocene fossil thylacinids as a way to understand the ecology & behavior of modern thylacines "The fossil history of the Thylacinidae can be seen as a series of steps toward hypercarnivory" https://t.co/FZgphTuB7B #2020MMM https://t.co/NuPT2a1ogt
Species in the Order Carnivora have official carnassials... thylacines, a marsupial, have convergent features across teeth that achieve that shearing, but not the same carnassial complex. Read more about thylacines in recent work by @DSRovinsky https://t.co/YwLSH7ev0q