Fanged Kangaroos Once Roamed Australia
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Before there were cuddly koalas, hordes of flesh-eating kangaroos, “demon ducks” and marsupial lions roamed Australia’s outback, according to paleontologists’ recent fossil discoveries announced Wednesday.
A team from the University of New South Wales working in the eastern state of Queensland made the discoveries in three new fossil deposits.
Many of the fossils are older than 24 million years; one of the deposits is thought to contain fossils up to 500 million years old. A saber-toothed kangaroo and a 10-foot-tall bird scientists nicknamed the “demon duck of doom” were among the largely unknown species uncovered.
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