This is no ordinary predator. It’s Thylacoleo, the so-called “marsupial lion,” a creature from Australia’s mysterious past whose jaws could crush bone like a nutcracker. For centuries ...

Experts believe Thylacoleo used its tail similarly after it caught its prey, freeing its front paws to get a solid grip on its victim as its powerful jaws dealt the deathblow.

What was the particular form of food associated with the most singular dentition of Thylacoleo, it would be hazardous to do more than conjecture. As the flora of the country in which this strange ...

It was the biggest and most powerful predatory marsupial ever known to have existed - one without any parallel in its environment today: the marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex. This creature was ...

An artist's rendering of Thylacoleo carnifex, Australia's massive marsupial "lion," based on earlier fossil evidence. A complete skeletal reconstruction, announced today, refines our understanding of ...

Sammy J: Meet Thylacoleo carnifex. This is a scientific artist's idea of what Australia's biggest ever carnivorous mammal may have looked like. Like most extinct Australian megafauna ...

A marsupial predator with an estimated weight of over 100kg, Thylacoleo was unlike any living animal, and paleontologists have long tried to interpret its lifestyle from incomplete remains.

The marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) stalked Australian forests tens of thousands of years ago. National Geographic Image Collection / Alamy Stock Photo Deep in the Australian Outback ...

Paleontologists and fossil fans know this beast as Thylacoleo carnifex, the “marsupial lion.” Scratches likely made by Thylacoleo in Tight Entrance Cave. From Arman and Prideaux, 2016.