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Thylacoleo

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The finest specimen of Thylacoleo is located here in the Western Australian Museum in Perth.  The specimen is about 0.5 million years old and was found in tact in a cave in the Nullarbor Plain.

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Thylacoleo

Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the late Pleistocene (2 million to 46 thousand years ago). Some of these "marsupial lions" were the largest mammalian predators in Australia of that time, with Thylacoleo carnifex approaching the weight of a small lion.

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