Cuddly koalas had a brutal, blade-toothed close cousin
The koalas clambering around eucalyptus canopies may be cuddly herbivores, but their extinct relatives were horrifying predators. The charismatic marsupials are the closest living relatives of marsupial lions — powerful carnivores that went extinct around 40,000 years ago. The findings are part of a study published November 12 in Proceedings B of the Royal Society…
