> Australia’s only marsupial apex predator This is only true if you just count recent history. It's the largest to survive the megafauna extinctions after hum

> Australia’s only marsupial apex predator This is only true if you just count recent history. It's the largest to survive the megafauna extinctions after humans arrived, and was out-competed by the non-marsupial dingo after that was introduced much later. The "marsupial lion" thylacoleo carnifex (extinct ~35k years ago) was much bigger and more powerful, and "had the strongest bite of any known mammal, living or extinct". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacoleo_carnifex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacoleo_carnifex Australia had tons of much larger herbivores too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna#Extinct_Australian_megafauna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna#Extinct_A...