Thylacine and Dingo (IMAGE)

Brown University

Thylacine and Dingo

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Brown University researchers have devised a dataset of forelimb bone measurements that can be used to classify the hunting style of mammalian predators. The now-extinct thylacine (front), shown juxtaposed with its still extant Australian rival the dingo, had forelimb anatomy that was curiously unspecialized for any particular hunting style.

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Image courtesy of Carl Buell

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