canines
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And like other newborn marsupials, the baby thylacines would be little larger than a grain of rice, so even a diminutive dunnart mother could nourish them in her pouch at first.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022
The year that the Orchard farmhouse was built, the Tasmanian government paid out fifty-eight bounties to trappers and hunters who presented the bodies of thylacines, which were wanted for preying on the settlers’ sheep.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
Now, by studying baby thylacines preserved in jars, Dr. Pask and his colleagues have pinpointed when those similarities began to develop.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
As thylacines nurse, a change occurs that distinguishes them from other marsupial species, the team found.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
To test for such convergent evolution, Feigin and Pask’s team identified 81 protein-coding genes in which both canids and thylacines had acquired similar DNA changes, including some with roles in skull development.
From Nature
