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