Is the claim that thylacines had a form of toxin that paralyzed its preys true?

Answered Nov 2, 2017

This article is part of a series of Q&A on the Tasmanian Tiger originally answered on Quora

The thylacine did not have venom.

The movie “The Hunter” is about a bounty hunter attempting to kill or capture a lone surviving Tasmanian tiger in the wild. The motive behind the kill is that a biotech company has learned that the Tasmanian tiger had a rare venom - but this is entirely fiction.