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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Digging up new species of Australia and New Guinea's giant fossil kangaroos

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Digging up new species of Australia and New Guinea's giant fossil kangaroos

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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Paleontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method than previously thought.
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