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		Sarcophilus harrisii), the Marsupial 'Lion' (Thylacoleo carnifex) and the Thylacine or Tasmanian...
		The skull of Thylacoleo carnifex -- which lived between 50,000 and 1.5 million years ago -- is now on show at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder museum.
		The Thylacoleo (pron: Thy-lac-oh-lee-oh) skeleton is part of a treasure trove of bones of extinct giant marsupials found in caves on the...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Thylacoleo (506 words)

	Extinct Australian
		The Thylacoleo weight derived from brain size is consistent with another previous estimate based on measuring the circumference of the femur and humerus—another method used to calculate weight.
		Thylacoleo's carnivore status was finally confirmed in the early 1980s with the discovery of a retractable claw and the simple fact that the animal didn't have the teeth to process plants.
		Thylacoleo was a top carnivore that probably occupied a similar niche to a medium-sized saber-toothed cat like Smilodon californicus, which lived in North America in the Pleisocene epoch.
	www.accuca.conectia.es /050304ng.htm (1522 words)

	Thylacoleo - Locomotory adaptations
		The Moree Thylacoleo specimen was the first virtually complete specimen of Thylacoleo to be found and provides the basis for limb comparisons with those of mammal species whose locomotory habits are known.
		Among the marsupials Thylacoleo displays a much higher index (115) than its placental counterpart and it is therefore grouped with animals which are adapted to climbing rather than running or walking.
		Judging from the limb proportions studied, Thylacoleo appears to have been a cursorial marsupial which was not capable of rapid locomotion.
	www.naturalworlds.org /thylacoleo/discovery/locomotion.htm (949 words)

	Paleocraft Thylacoleo carnifex
		"Thylacoleo carnifex was the largest member of an extinct group of marsupial predators know as the thylacoleonids which lived in Australia from Late Oligocene times until the end of the last Ice Age.
		The dentition of Thylacoleo is among its most peculiar features, possessing a set of large stabbing maxillary and mandibular first incisors.
		In spite of this, Thylacoleo's hand would have had a powerful grip through opposition of the thumb, not to the other digits as in primates, but to a flattened bone (the pisiform) in the wrist.
	www.paleocraft.com /Thylacoleo.html (463 words)

	Beneath the desert, the past blooms - theage.com.au
		One of eight thylacoleo skeletons unearthed during the two-week fossil dig _ the other seven were partial skeletons _ the well-armed bush terror sports a deadly pair of lower incisors and enlarged premolars for piercing flesh.
		Though the seashell-lined walls in these caves reveal a time when the limestone plain was under water about 15 million years ago, the presence of thylacoleo and giant kangaroo bones testify to more recent ice ages and extinction of the megafauna about 46,000 years ago.
		The thylacoleo was probably attracted to this cave by the smell of other unfortunate decomposing animals.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/30/1027926885416.html (1343 words)

	Megafauna - "First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction" - book by Baz Edmeades
		Until recently, it was thought that Thylacoleo was a leopard-sized animal, but evidence marshaled by Stephen Wroe of the University of New South Wales suggests that might have been closer in size to a female lion or tiger.
		Thylacoleo was more of a “rat-bear” than a cat – the animal’s body was stocky and muscular rather than lithe.
		Thylacoleo may not have been particularly cat-like, but the wolf-sized marsupial predator Thylacinus cynocephalus was astonishingly and faithfully dog-like.
	www.megafauna.com /chapter5.htm (4624 words)

	Thylacoleo
		Thylacoleo prowled Australian forests in the recent prehistoric past.
		Some scientists believe the large fifth toe was used for slashing prey, and the wide arc through which it could be extended suggests that it was used for grasping and climbing.
		The large toe-like projection in the lower right of the picture appears to be a fifth toe, but it's actually the heel of a wombat's hind foot.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~nickcostello/thylacol.htm (574 words)

	Thylacoleo carnifex, ancient Australia’s marsupial lion « Laelaps
		Thylacoleo, however, was an entirely different branch of the mammalian tree, but it seems that its skull and jaws were adapted to similar ends (although arguably were more extreme in their modifications).
		Hence, Thylacoleo actually is not a bad name for the “pouched lion”;; it seems to share a large amount of convergences with its modern-day namesake, although it may have been less bright (and less sociable) with a more powerful bite.
		The theory that Thylacoleo was able to climb trees seems to stem from the arboreal habits of the - closely related - diprotodont possums (not to be confused with the American Opossums) and from the romantic victorian idea that the leopard attacks its prey by dropping from trees.
	laelaps.wordpress.com /2007/08/31/thylacoleo-carnifex-ancient-australias-marsupial-lion (5707 words)

	Murderous marsupial in mystery cave - TV & Radio - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		A silent stalker with the most powerful jaws of any mammal in the world, it could remain invisible until the second it dropped from a tree or leapt from behind a log to deal death with a single, spine-severing bite.
		Meet thylacoleo, the "marsupial lion" that terrorised Australia for millions of years and moved the 19th-century British paleontologist Sir Richard Owen to describe it as "the fellest of predatory beasts".
		Seeing the pristine skeleton of the thylacoleo lying there - with hardly so much as a speck of dust on it - "made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up", he says.
	www.theage.com.au /news/tv--radio/murderous-marsupial-in-mystery-cave/2006/08/08/1154802894084.html (811 words)

	Marsupial Lion Page
		One of eight thylacoleo skeletons unearthed during the two-week fossil dig _ the other seven were partial skeletons _ the well-armed bush terror sports a deadly pair of lower incisors and enlarged premolars for piercing flesh.
		Though the seashell-lined walls in these caves reveal a time when the limestone plain was under water about 15 million years ago, the presence of thylacoleo and giant kangaroo bones testify to more recent ice ages and extinction of the megafauna about 46,000 years ago.
		The thylacoleo was probably attracted to this cave by the smell of other unfortunate decomposing animals.
	www.theaustralianyowieresearchcenter.com /tc/bluemountainsprints.html (1336 words)

	Mazaron's Castle: Australian Monsters (page 3)
		Wherever large carnivores such as the thylacine and the thylacoleo stalk on Uluru, the devils are not far behind.
		Thylacoleo carnifex, the so-called 'Marsupial Lion', was a leopard-like animal, and was almost certainly carnivorous and a tree-dweller.
		Though somewhat smaller than a leopard, except for man, the Thylacoleo is arguably dominant natural animal predator on the fantasy Australian continent of Uluru.
	personal.atl.bellsouth.net /t/f/tf_martn/Files/aussie3.html (1110 words)

	NOVA \| Bone Diggers \| Anatomy of Thylacoleo \| PBS
		Thylacoleo carnifex held great strength in its legs, but scars indicating that muscles attached low on its thighbones suggest that it probably lacked the flexibility to move at high speed.
		Thylacoleo had a sizeable and highly developed nasal cavity, which suggests that—not surprisingly for a predator—it had a strong sense of smell.
		From the size and prominence of the marsupial lion's cerebral lobes, scientists have determined that the animal relied heavily on its keen senses of hearing, sight, and smell.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/bonediggers/thyl-nf.html (713 words)

	Quuensland Tiger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Relatively well known nowadays is the theory that the Queensland tiger might have been a surviving representative of the thylacoleonids, a group of carnivorous marsupials (often called marsupial lions’) known as fossils from Oligocene to Pleistocene times (26 million to 10,000 years ago).
		Though hinted at by Heuvelmans in Sur la piste, the suggestion that the Queensland tiger might be a surviving type of Thylacoleo was proposed explicitly by Karl Shuker in 1989.
		Both Thylacoleo and the Queensland tiger, after all, appear to have been short-headed, sharp-clawed, superficially cat-like predators adept at climbing trees.
	www.forteantimes.com /exclusive/thylacine.shtml (1727 words)

	Thylacoleo carnifex - Marsupial Lion
		The marsupial lion is an extinct large carnivorous marsupial from Australia that is compared to the saber-toothed cats of the Americas.
		Though more closely related to wombats than real lions, Thylacoleo carnifex was called the "marsupial lion" because of its similar size to an African lion, predatory nature and cat-like skull.
		The marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) was described in detail about 1859 by the noted British paleontologist Sir Richard Owen (known as the first person to use the term "dinosaur").
	www.knowyoursto.com /marsupialia/species/Thylacoleo-carnifex.html (1653 words)

	CSIRO PUBLISHING - Australian Journal of Zoology
		The Thylacoleo fore- and hindlimbs were almost equal in length (FL/HL, 94%) and relatively long compared to the vertebral column (79% and 84%).
		Morphologically, the Thylacoleo scapula conforms to that found in walking and trotting, rather than climbing, viverrids; the pelvis similarly agrees with that of ambulators and cursors.
		It was concluded that Thylacoleo carnifex was a slow- medium cursor, possibly capable of leaping.
	www.publish.csiro.au /nid/90/paper/ZO9880251.htm (272 words)

	2007 August 31 « Laelaps
		Thylacoleo carnifex, ancient Australia’s marsupial lion">Thylacoleo carnifex, ancient Australia’s marsupial lion
		Deemed the “Marsupial Lion”; Thylacoleo carnifex developed many of the predatory adaptations we seen in living big cats (hence the “leo”, meaning “lion”;, in the genus name), and despite the superficially rodent-like appearance of it’s front teeth, it was certainly a powerful predator.
		From the size and form of the carnassials of Thylacoleo, especially of the upper one, we may infer that it was one of the fellest and most destructive of predatory beasts.
	laelaps.wordpress.com /2007/08/31 (5393 words)

	Catalyst: Thylacoleo "The Beast of the Nullarbor" - ABC TV Science
		Dr John Long: in some cases animals that have died in the last few thousand years have residual DNA with inside their bones and teeth and these can be extracted and studied to see how they fit in the big picture of life.
		We had a whole range of large animals, a bunch of giant kangaroos, huge wombats the size of small cars, and at that time it was kill or be killed, and it was pretty well cut throat.
		For the first time, we are face to face with Thylacoleo the beast that mustsurely have ruled the Nullarbor.
	www.abc.net.au /catalyst/stories/s1717424.htm (3497 words)

	Mega-monsters unearthed in outback death trap - smh.com.au
		Another seven partial skeletons of thylacoleo were found in two other caves, one of which contained the remains of six Leo skeletons.
		Parts of two Tasmanian tiger skeletons were also found in the caves, which acted as death traps for animals over many thousands of years.
		Thylacoleo grew to three metres in length, sported deadly front incisors and secateur-like shearing teeth to tear flesh.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/29/1027926858235.html (574 words)

	The Quest for Thylacoleo - 'Dem bones!
		Thylacoleo came from the phlangerers(koalas, wombats, possums)but that was so long ago.
		Thylacoleo had the post orbital closed, giving it a tremendous bite: no other carnivores have that, marsupial or not.
		Thylacoleo had one thumb(not like the koala) and it was a large hooked claw like the enlarged claw on a raptor dinosaur's foot.
	thylacoleo.proboards18.com /index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general&thread=383&post=5969 (991 words)

	U.S. Cavers Forum - caversforum.org - Thylacoleo Skeleton Found in a Nullarbor Cave
		In 2002, cavers stumbled upon the first complete skeleton of a giant predatory marsupial, the Thylacoleo.
		Time 8:00 PM In May 2002, beneath the Nullarbor Plain, a group of cavers stumbled across the first complete skeleton of a Thylacoleo, a predatory marsupial that roamed the country for millions of years.
		This documentary focuses on Thylacoleo, speculating what it looked like, how it hunted and why it became extinct about 50,000 years ago.
	nssmembersforum.proboards28.com /index.cgi?board=paleontology&action=display&thread=1155139900&page=1 (673 words)

	Extinct Animals - Thylacoleo carnifex
		Thylacoleo carnifex is commonly referred to as a 'Marsupial Lion', largely because of the cat-like nature of its skull and its carnivorous habit.
		Thylacoleo was capable of grasping or slashing its prey with the long sharp claws on its semi-opposable thumb, then stabbing or strangling with its large incisor teeth.
		Finally the hapless prey would be cut into bite-size pieces with the blade-like cheek teeth.
	www.parks.sa.gov.au /naracoorte/wonambi/animals/extinct/005815 (153 words)

	Cryptozoology.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you compare the skeleton of a thylacoleo with those of, for example, a dog, you see that their are much more powerfully built.
		Some decades ago, some paleonthologists thought thylacoleo was about the size of an ozelot(about 20-30kg), later it was thought it was about the size of a leopard or jaguar(about 40-80kg) and recent studies showed it was in fact much more heavier built than thought.
		The Thylacoleo is one of the candidates for being The Beast of Gevaudan, if she was in fact a surviving prehistoric monster.
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=4&pid=306387 (431 words)

	Humans And Fauna In Australia
		The Pleistocene carnivores were limited to just three species: Thylacoleo carnifex, known as the 'Marsupial lion' or the 'giant killer possum'; the carnivorous lizard Megalania; and the Tasmanian 'tiger', Thylacines.
		Most of the marks are thought to have been a result of Thylacoleo carnifex gnawing on the bones.
		It would be very difficult to believe that Thylacoleo would have made such perfect grooves in the tooth, and there is also the question why an animal would chew on a tooth in the first place.
	website.lineone.net /~oddweb/articles/a_7_humans_and_fauna_in_australia.htm (2504 words)

	The Marsupial Lion
		In small high tech settlements the capybara provolves the cyberbara nation attempted to combine a scavenging life style with connection by nanogauge wormhole to the complexities of the known net, while the atavist rianths avoided contact with galactic society, and became more reticent and eccentric.
		To combat the repeated predation of cyberbara female gathering parties in the rainforest by a particular clade of marsupial rianth lions, Homo thylacoleo, the alpha male cyberbaras instigated a bounty system to restrict the lion population.
		Neither the cyberbaras nor the Dominion farmers were willing to let Genen specialists revive the missing clade, and most of the forest atavistic rianth clades were glad to see the predators removed from the food chain, but for six hundred years persistent reports appeared to show the survival of a small relict population.
	www.orionsarm.com /historical/Marsupial_Lion.html (338 words)

	Singleton Thylacoleo Sighting Report - Where Light Meets Dark (www.wherelightmeetsdark.com)
		A sighting was recently reported on my colleagues forum at the Quest for Thylacoleo which merits mention.
		Without having any concrete proof of the colouration of thylacoleo, TC Girl's observations of the animal's colour are interesting, but unusable.
		The skeptics will argue that the details are too perfect for this to be a genuine sighting (let alone the accepted extinction date for thylacoleo) but others will argue that consistent sightings are exactly the thing that points to a real animal.
	www.wherelightmeetsdark.com /index.php?module=wiki&page=SingletonThylacoleoSightingReport (2269 words)

	Thylacoleo - SCIFIPEDIA
		The only animal that ever existed in Australia and fitted this description was the marsupial lion, believed extinct for thousands of years.
		The British scientist who coined the term dinosaur, Sir Richard Owen, gave the creature its scientific name – ‘’Thylacoleo Carnifex’’ - for meat cutting, pouched lion, in 1859.
		It was only recently, following the discovery of a treasure trove of remains in the Nullarbor in 2002, that scientists have been able to build a complete picture of the creature as a hunter.
	scifipedia.scifi.com /index.php/Thylacoleo (438 words)

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