Thylacoleo carnifex

[DariusAmurdarja]

Thylacoleo was a huge carnivorous marsupial in australia. It had one of the strongest bite forces ever and a very unique jaw and teeth configuration.





Its believed that Thylacoleo went extinct several thousand years ago. The Aboriginies did meet them though. They painted them on the walls of caves and there is even one painting of a Thylacoleo that has scratch marks of a Thylacoleo who came by later and sharpened his claws there.



But is it really extinct? Aboriginals talk about it like about evry other animal and there is a rising amount of killed cattle and cattle with terrible scratch and bite marks in the outback. What do you think about it? Is he still alive or are there big cats out there released from Circus or private owners?

 

[Chub_by]

Australia isn't the ocean or the jungle... it's vast and flat. Quite certainly impossible an animal of that size could remain unseen there for such a long time. It's even likeleyer it was a tasmanian tiger.

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

A tasmanian tiger could not hurt cattle. Also australia is not flat. My guess is you were never in the outback? Tons of rocks, holes, hills and large areas completly uninhabitated. The scratch wounds could not be done from a dog. There are two possibilities:

1. Thylacoleo carnifex

2. a stable population of big cats like Leopard or Jaguar which were released from circus or private owners.

 

[cmsbthebest]

I'd say it would be more plausible for thylacines to be the culprits. Even though they are also considered extinct, they died off more recently and could very well still have a small population on australia, that has been undocumented for hundreds of years


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[DariusAmurdarja]

But Thylacines had no claws. When you see the cows they have deep scratch wounds mostly on their hind legs and hips. Huge cats hunt like that, they run behind the prey and then grab them from behind. I have no clue how Thylacines hunted but i would guess it was way more dog like.

 

[Chub_by]

Very interesting thread, hope it stays calm
I'm no expert,but what about big dingos?

 

[TheHolyArachnid]

Cool.

Have you seen this cat though?
Machairodus kabir

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

Here you see what i mean:

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

dingos do't use claws as well.

 

[Chub_by]

Not in that manner.. that looks 100% cat to me. Look at lions grabbing a hold of wildebeast or water buffalos. They grab in the exact same manner.