Northern thylacine (SciiFii)

The Northern thylacine (Thylacinus alicii), also known as the North Australian tiger and the North Australian wolf, is a species of large dog-like striped carnivorous marsupial native to the Northern Territory, Australia. It was created by SciiFii using the Tasmanian thylacine as a base and modified to be more robust and larger, filling the ecological niche left behind by the extinct thylacine species, Thylacinus potens. It is around 5% larger than its Tasmanian relative, about the size of a gray wolf, and has a shorter yet broader skull, containing teeth that are less adapted for shearing, but more adapted to crushing bones. Due to being a larger animals and thanks to its stronger jaws, it is able to hunt animals like large wallabies, as well as other herbivores larger than itself. It is relatively shy and nocturnal, with the general appearance of a medium-to-large-size dog, except for its stiff tail and abdominal pouch similar to a kangaroo's, and dark transverse stripes, reminiscent of a tiger. Its closest relative includes both the Tasmanian devil and, more distantly, the numbat. The northern thylacine, like other thylacine species, is one of only marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes: the other is the water opossum. The pouch of the male northern thylacine serves as a protective sheath covering the external reproductive organs. The conservation status of the northern thylacine is Near Threatened due to climate change, habitat loss, and historic poaching, but thanks to conservationists, the numbers of the northern thylacines are making a comeback.