The recently extinct marsupial Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, was the largest living mammalian carnivore in Australia.

Sep 13, 2024 · New members have been added to the family tree of the now extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Fossils of the new species were found in northwestern...

The most spectacular find has been an almost complete skeleton of a thylacine from the AL90 site at Riversleigh. First glimpsed in 1996 when a limestone boulder was cracked to reveal part of the skull after 17 million years in a limestone tomb.

Nov 3, 2024 · Now, a team of researchers from UNSW Sydney has added three of its oldest ancestors to its evolutionary tree. The team discovered three new species of Thylacines in fossils unearthed from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in Waanyi country, northwestern Queensland, Australia.

Sep 9, 2024 · Scientists from UNSW Sydney have discovered three new species of thylacines in fossils unearthed from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in Waanyi country of north-western Queensland. In research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, palaeontologists say the new species are now the oldest members of the Thylacine family to ...

Sep 11, 2024 · The newfound species, which were found in a fossil bed in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northern Australia, are related to the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Also known as...

Sep 10, 2024 · Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of three new species in the thylacinid genera Badjcinus, Nimbacinus, and Ngamalacinus in the Upper Oligocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia.

ABSTRACT—New thylacinid species of Badjcinus, Nimbacinus, and Ngamalacinus are described from upper Oligocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland.

Sep 16, 2024 · The teeth – including the lower jaw and isolated first molar – were found at Hiatus Site at Riversleigh, which is even older than White Hunter Site where Badjcinus turnbulli was previously found. This makes Badjcinus timfaulkneri the …

The recent discoveries of a number of fossil thylacinid species and at least one ancestral dasyurid at Riversleigh from approximately 22 million years ago suggest a minimum divergence time of 25 million years, and possibly even as far back as 30 to 40 million years ago.