How close to dingoes were the thylacines, I wonder. There are some physical similarities in their head shapes. I have wondered in the past whether the thylacin

How close to dingoes were the thylacines, I wonder. There are some physical similarities in their head shapes. I have wondered in the past whether the thylacines were striped dingoes. (Or alternatively, that dingoes were plain-coated thylacines.) But in the end, I doubt that greatly due to the long lengths of history when the thylacines were separated from the mainland.