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Extinct Kangaroo Could Climb Trees With Its Huge Claws – Gizmodo Australia

A new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently, even hopping can get boring. According to the study, published…

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A new study describes a semiarboreal kangaroo that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently, even hopping can get boring.
According to the study, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, the discovery came from fossils excavated decades ago from Western Australias Mammoth Cave and the Thylacoleo Caves system. The skulls, teeth, and skeletons of the two extinct marsupials were originally identified as representing an Ice Age wallaby, Wallabia kitcheneri. The researchers posit that…

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