Tasmanian tiger's jaw was too small to attack sheep, study shows

Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 04:00 in Biology & Nature

Australia's iconic thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to death in the early Twentieth century for allegedly killing sheep; however, a new study published in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of Zoology has found that the tiger had such weak jaws that its prey was probably no larger than a possum.

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