Tassie tiger cut down to size by new theory

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'No bigger than a kelpie': US PhD student resizes thinking on Tasmanian Tiger

He was loaned a 3D scanner and visited Museums Victoria and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart to scan the surface of the skeletons and taxidermised animals.

"With the skeletons, we took the skeletons into the computer, and then we built a thylacine around them," he said."I was able to go 'if the skull is this big, I know that the animal should weigh about this much because I weighed it in the computer'," he said. "Small ones [animals], almost always eat very small things, and the interesting thing about this study is that it puts the thylacine down below that point," he said.

Mr Rovinsky said he thinks the thylacine would be "eating things like pademelons or bettongs, or maybe young or small wallabies".

 

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jjjove I never thought it was any bigger than that.

Laugh if you want but I've seen one here in Northern Victoria and it would have been 25 kilograms and the head is out of proportion to its body.

I mean, they don’t look like they’re any bigger than that.

Extinct or no?

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