New paper for #FossilFriday with Christine Janis, Larisa DeSantis and @FigueiridoBorja.
Here we show that the marsupial Thylacosmilus was not sabre-tooth predator: https://t.co/Kcg56MkOtO https://t.co/v3MIA7Kjib
New #OA paper by Janis et al. on Thylacosmilus, the sabre-toothed marsupial. The example used in all the textbooks for convergent evolution with the sabre-tooth cat. But their very different ways of being sabre-toothed indicate very different lifestyles https://t.co/ZleVLJlNIn
Just published in #PeerJ - An eye for a tooth: Thylacosmilus was not a marsupial “saber-tooth predator”
https://t.co/1087GquOpH
#evolutionarystudies #paleontology https://t.co/UQc9S4KbTa