Mar 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Mukupirna fortidentata looked a bit like a modern wombat crossed with a marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex). An artist’s impression of Mukupirna nambensis...

Oct 25, 2018 by News Staff

New evidence indicates the primary cause of the extinction of one of Australia’s top predators, the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), around 40,000...

May 23, 2018 by News Staff

A rare species of orangutan, a majestic tree, a beetle that looks like part of an ant, the world’s deepest-living fish, and the fossil of a marsupial...

Dec 7, 2017 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of carnivorous marsupial lion that lived 26 to 18 million years ago (late Oligocene to early Miocene) in...

Aug 23, 2016 by News Staff

A new species of marsupial lion that lived approximately 18 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in Australia. Reconstruction of Microleo...

Aug 18, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has proposed that an extinct animal called the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) hunted in a very unique way...