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Despite Isolation, Tasmanian Tiger Pups Were More Like Wolves Than Other Marsupials 12 JANUARY 2021 The thylacine has long been considered a truly remarkable species. The extinct Australian beast was a marsupial, but its skull was distinctly canine in appearance, almost identical to the skulls of red foxes and grey wolves.
Now, new research has confirmed that this resemblance wasn t limited to adult thylacines ( Thylacinus cynocephalus) - it was present even in the skulls of newborn pups, and persisted throughout the animal s lifespan. The finding could shed more light on how different animals can evolve similar characteristics to occupy similar ecological niches, even though they might be unrelated and separated by space and time - a phenomenon known as convergent evolution. ....