We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived

  • Written by: Isaac A. R. Kerr, Research Assistant at Flinders University Palaeontology Laboratory, Flinders University
We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survivedArtist's impression of the prehistoric landscape and creatures that Protemnodon would have walked among.Peter Schouten

For millions of years, giant animals or megafauna roamed the lands that are now Australia and New Guinea. Many were like much larger versions of modern animals.

There was a four-metre goanna called Megalania (Varanus priscus), for...

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