The Thylacine was a marsupial related to kangaroos and is also known as the marsupial 늑대 또는 marsupial tiger. Although it resembles the placental wolf, its head was longer and its legs proportionately shorter. Its similarity to 늑대 and 개 is an example of convergent evolution - the evolution of a body shape suited to its role and resembling unrelated 동물 occupying similar ecological niches.
Early European settlers in Tasmania dubbed it the marsupial wolf, 캥거루 wolf, pouched 늑대 and native wolf, but the scientific name of thylacine is use in modern times. Early literature also...
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