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- Australian researchers reported thylacine skull built for rapid snaps on small prey.
- The paper analyzed 3D scans of 225 thylacine skulls and 60 other carnivores.
- Researchers found skull size matched wolves despite 17-kilogram body.
- Oversized head enabled lethal snaps on agile prey like bandicoots.
- Weisbecker said findings counter misconceptions that fueled colonial bounties and sheep-predation myths leading to extinction by 1936.
