Picture the biggest, most jacked kangaroo you've ever seen. Now double it.
That's what was hopping around central Australia tens of thousands of years ago, in landscape that looked much different than the more arid Australia of today.is one of three species newly named in research published today that helps solve a 150-year-old mystery and has possible implications for climate change adaptation.
"I think the most interesting thing for me is understanding Australia," the Flinders University researcher said. Isaac Kerr, then in the first year of his PhD, is shown with a partial skeleton of a species of Sthenurus, an extinct short-faced kangaroo, that he was helping excavate. But the naturalist was a bit too focused on the teeth and described too many different species based on small differences.
"The first Australians arrived when the first Australians arrived Protemnodon were still alive," Kerr said.Bob and Sue Tulloch, two volunteers from the Flinders Ranges area, are shown digging up the largest-known skeleton of Protemnodon viator, a specimen nicknamed 'Old Gregg' for its great size and very worn teeth, suggesting advanced age.
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