New species couldn't hop, but outlived its fanged kangaroo contemporaries
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 22:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A newly found genus, and two new species of, extinct kangaroos which couldn't hop, but may have been ancestral to all kangaroos and wallabies living today. Researchers report that the new kangaroo species were discovered in ancient fossil deposits at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, Australia.