Marsupial predators — larger than leopards and every bit as agile — once hunted across South Australia. Adelaide scientists have revealed for the first time what they were like. In a paper published ...

A version of the mythical Australian “drop bear”, a carnivorous marsupial resembling a koala, actually lived on the continent at least until about 40,000 years ago, scientists revealed in a new study.

Restoration of the skull of Thylacoleo. From The Ancient Life History of the Earth. In June 2005 the owners of Henschke’s Quarry in Naracoorte, Australia contacted scientist Steven Bourne about some ...

Thyalacoleo carnifex, the 'marsupial lion' of Pleistocene Australia, was an adept hunter that got around with the help of a strong tail, according to a new study. These insights come after newly ...

Australian ecosystems, famous for their hell beasts of every stripe, were also awesome thousands of years ago: New research from paleoecologists at Flinders University in Adelaide indicates that ...

New research suggests it was climate change—not human activity—that caused Thylacoleo carnifex, an Australian marsupial lion, to go extinct. For millions of years, Thylacoleo carnifex ruled the ...

One of Australia's most fantastic beasts, the extinct Thylacoleo carnifex, or "meat-cutting marsupial lion," possessed a host of physical traits unseen in any single creature alive today. These ...

Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Málaga have proposed that the long extinct marsupial lion hunted in a very unique way - by using its teeth to hold prey before dispatching them with its ...

Thyalacoleo carnifex, the "marsupial lion" of Pleistocene Australia, was an adept hunter that got around with the help of a strong tail, according to a study released December 12, 2018 in the ...