Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Was Smarter Than We Thought
For the first time, scientists have scanned the brain of a long-extinct animal.
For the first time, scientists have peered into the brain of a long-extinct animal: the Tasmanian tiger, a rangy and fierce carnivore that ruled the wilds of its namesake island and was hunted into oblivion in 1937. A marsupial—like kangaroos or opossums—the apex predator wasn’t related to tigers and resembled a
