PBS Eons: Thylacoleo Is The Missing Australian Apex Predator

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about Thylacoleo, the so called marsupial lion, which was an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the late Pleistocene.

In Australia, evolution built a family of deadly predators by taking a group of cute, harmless herbivores and turning them murderous.

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