Photo of the Day #587: Thylacoleo

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The skull of the marsupial predator Thylacoleo, photographed at the AMNH's "Extreme Mammals" exhibit.
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Quite a curiosity, a carnivore that comes from a family of herbivores, a hunter whose killing tools are incisors, not canines! What appears to be Thylacoleo is represented in Aboriginal paintings, and these may yield as much information as the European cave paintings of the Pleistocene.

By Raymond Minton (not verified) on 22 May 2009 #permalink