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Fanged kangaroos in Australia were thought to have gone extinct 15 million years ago, but new evidence suggests they were around for at least 5 million more years.


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Balbaroo fangaroo partial bones, from the Riverlseigh World Heritage Area in AustraliaKAYLENE BUTLER See K. Butler et al., “Species abundance, richness and body size evolution of kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) throughout the Oligo-Miocene of Australia,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.016, 2017.

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