Welcome to Thylacoleo - Australia's Marsupial Lion, a natural history of the marsupial family Thylacoleonidae. Thylacoleonids are predatory marsupials which lived in Australia from Late Oligocene times until the end of the Pleistocene. Members of this marsupial family varied in dimensions from that of a house cat to nearly the size of an African lion. The most famous species of the family is Thylacoleo carnifex, which is often referred to as the "Marsupial lion" due to its large size. Click on any of the topic listings shown below to begin your tour of the website. Clicking on a section's title image will take you to its introductory page. UPDATE - A complete Thylacoleo carnifex skeleton has been discovered in a cave on Western Australia's Nullarbor Plain. See announcement at The Age. |
