Giant Australian marsupials were like no other
September 27, 2017
A giant prehistoric Ice Age marsupial related to wombats and koalas has been discovered to be the only marsupial known to have ever followed annual seasonal migration.
Likening it to "Australia's Ice Age Serengeti," the University of Queensland's Dr Gilbert Price tracked the now extinct megafauna diprotodon – a three-tonne beast up to 1.8 metres tall and 3.5 metres long – using fossils and geochemistry tools.
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https://phys.org/news/2017-09-giant-australian-marsupials.html#jCp
