Researchers from Flinders University have identified three new species of extinct kangaroo, helping to solve a nearly 150-year-long scientific mystery.
Three species of extinct kangaroo, believed to have died out about 40,000 years ago, have been discovered by palaeontologists.Scientists say it's unlikely the kangaroos will be the subjects of de-extinction processes.
The largest weighs up to 160 kilograms — double the size of the current-day heavyweight red kangaroo. He then compared these against fossils of giant marsupials and kangaroos found in Lake Callabonna, in northern South Australia. Less is known about the dawsonae, but it may have been the ancestor to the viator and mamakurra, said Dr Kerr."Maybe something like a swamp wallaby or redneck wallaby from today."The newly-discovered Protemnodon species are believed to have died out about 40,000 years ago, but palaeontologists aren't exactly sure why.
They were previously thought to have all been quadrupeds, travelling on all fours as opposed to hopping like the kangaroos of today.
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