What the Hell is Thylacosmilus?!

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Thylacosmilus looks simple on the surface. It's a saber-toothed cat, like Smilodon. Except it wasn't. It was from a strange group of South American mammals, which only went extinct a few milllion years ago. And Thylacosmilus was among the strangest, and most informative of them all.

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