Photo credit of thylacine in foreground, dingo in back: Carl Buell.
For millions of years, a creature that seemed like a hybrid of a cat and dog roamed Australia and Tanzania. Some called it the “marsupial wolf” while others claimed it was a “Tasmanian tiger.”
Sadly, the last of these ancient beasts called Thylacinus cynocephalus died in a zoo in 1936. Human settlers were to blame for the animals' ultimate extinction, but the dingo, a native dog-like animal, may have helped wipe out the species.
In a paper published in Biology Letters, researchers at Brown University believe they have fin....