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The marsupial lion was one of the most fearsome predators to have lived in Australia. Although it was a marsupial and so not closely related to any of the placental mammals found on other continents they demonstrate remarkable convergent evolution to the predators found elswhere. Howeever the differed in some important ways namely they had enlarged incisors. Due to these strange features early naturalists thought they were herbivirous. To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light... Email: mothlightmedia@outlook.com If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40386545 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270648548_Catching_the_'marsupial_lion'_by_the_tail_Thylacoleo_carnifex_and_the_Naracoorte_Caves https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/632.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6291118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267999/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/skull-of-ekaltadeta-ima-marsupialia-hypsiprymnodontidae-an-analysis-of-some-marsupial-cranial-features-and-a-reinvestigation-of-propleopine-phylogeny-with-notes-on-the-inference-of-carnivory-in-mammals/48E5F3C86CE1B424EFBFB64E80FFB9CD