The Thylacine was a marsupial related to kangaroos and is also known as the marsupial নেকড়ে অথবা marsupial tiger. Although it resembles the placental wolf, its head was longer and its legs proportionately shorter. Its similarity to নেকড়ে and সারমেয় is an example of convergent evolution - the evolution of a body shape suited to its role and resembling unrelated জন্তু জানোয়ার occupying similar ecological niches.
Early European settlers in Tasmania dubbed it the marsupial wolf, ক্যাঙ্গারু wolf, pouched নেকড়ে and native wolf, but the scientific name of thylacine is use in modern times. Early literature also...
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