Quote from: DoomRulz on May 07, 2014, 11:16:20 PM
Snouts look like those of the fabled fish-eaters, but what story do the teeth tell? I hear tyrannosaurid and I instinctively think of thick bone crushers.
They're apparently longer and narrower than usual.
Quote from: judge death on May 06, 2014, 03:36:48 PMThylacoleo "marsupial lion" who lived too not long ago and the info I´ve managed to find so far is that they are one of the most specially adapted mammal predators to live but not much info why? So need your help to learn more about this animal to start with.
Well, after a skim of good old Wikipedia, it looks like they were adapted for tackling large kangaroos, like the 230kg Procoptodon, and other giant marsupials (such as Thylacoleo's herbivorous relative, 2-and-a-half-ton Diprotodon).
Kangaroos can take care of themselves pretty well in a fight, and can bound at speed for enormous distances, so they present some unusual challenges for a predator. And, obviously, so does prey weighing twenty times that of the predator.
Thylacoleo had hands designed a little like ours, for grasping (albeit tipped with gigantic claws). Long, powerful limbs for wrestling, and the ability to rear up stably on its hind legs to free its entire upper-body for prey capture. Also very strong jaws designed for crippling extremely large prey.