thylacine
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- noun
- /ˈθaɪləˌsaɪn/
- Australian
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tilacino
- If we look at the actual evidence, humans are more closely related to dogs than dogs are to thylacines, even if dogs look more like thylacines than humans.
Examples
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Furthermore, marsupial moles looking like golden moles and thylacines looking like dogs are only the two best examples of marsupials resembling placentals.
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Many people are fascinated by the thylacine and hope to learn more about its life and extinction.
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If dogs and thylacines are the same kind, how on earth could that ever be a useful way of categorizing species?
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But to say that the thylacine was the same kind as the dogs in the order Carnivora totally denudes the concept of kind.
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The thylacine!
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But we can only re-create species of which there are tissue samples, so could we re-create the Thylacine, for instance?
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If we look at the actual evidence, humans are more closely related to dogs than dogs are to thylacines, even if dogs look more like thylacines than humans.
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And the thylacine looked like a species of wild dog, even though it behaved more like a cat and was restricted to hunting much smaller prey than a similar-sized placental wild dog.
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The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, had distinctive stripes that made it easily recognizable.
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Fossils of the thylacine have been found, showing how this unique marsupial once roamed Tasmania.
Synonyms
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A doglike meat-eating animal from Tasmania with stripes and a pouch, believed extinct since the 20th century
A type of animal from Tasmania that looks like a dog, has stripes on its back, and is now extinct
A probably extinct doglike animal from Tasmania with a pouch and stripes called the Tasmanian tiger
Surface Forms
Etymology
Thylacine comes from a Greek root thylakos meaning 'pouch'. That is a helpful memory hook because the thylacine was a Tasmanian animal that carried its young in a 'pouch', and its common name, the Tasmanian tiger, reminds you of the stripes on its back.