Their findings on the cancer afflicting the carnivorous marsupial have been published in the latest edition of the journal Science.

Owen, by contrast, thought that Plagiaulax was a carnivorous marsupial, perhaps based upon conclusions he had previously come to about Thylacoleo.

The carnivorous marsupial is under severe threat from a contagious facial tumor disease which has eradicated over 90 percent of the species.

Tasmanian Devils at Wellington Zoo are being prevented from breeding, despite a contagious cancer having slashed the wild population of the carnivorous marsupial by 80%.

Thus, the marsupial wolf represents an example of convergent morphological evolution to South American carnivorous marsupials as well as to true wolves.