The cruel sheathed knife
A carnivorous marsupial with teeth for days.
The Sperasodonto order, a group of marsupial-like mammals, carried their young in a pouch. These predators conversantly evolved into lookalikes hyenas, wolves and saber-tooth cats. The most striking example of this was the Thylacosmilus atrox, who lived in the grasslands of modern day Argentina between 9 ~ 3 million years ago. They are commonly known as the Marsupial sabertooth.
Common name: Marsupial sabertooth
When it lived: Miocene epoch
Where it lived: South America
Size: [100 ~ 150 kg]
Case study of 𝒯𝒽𝓎𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑜𝓈𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓊𝓈 𝒶𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓍 a.k.a. The cruel sheathed knife 🗡️🐆
an extinct carnivorous marsupial with teeth for days
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Guided by Fernando Baptista (the mastermind behind National Geographic’s infographics) I sculpted my 𝒯𝒽𝓎𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑜𝓈𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓊𝓈 and designed this poster sized infographic for the subject ‘Information design’, as part of the Masters Degree in Scientific Illustration at the University of Basque Country.
