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Scientists identify three new species of ancient kangaroo—and one was more than 6.6 feet tall
The giant kangaroos are from the genus Protemnodon ... "A large but thick-boned and robust kangaroo, it was probably fairly slow-moving and inefficient. It may have hopped only rarely, perhaps ...
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40,000 years ago Australia was home to giant kangaroos, here’s proof
Dr. Isaac Kerr, lead study author and a kangaroo paleontologist at Flinders University, said. The history of the Protemnodon genus dates back to 150 years. A British paleontologist Sir Richard ...