Musky rat-kangaroos look a bit like a potoroo – but they have a unique trait not shared with any other roos.
- Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
Digital scanning offers a new window on Australia’s unique fossil history, from early multicellular lifeforms to gigantic ‘marsupial lions’.
Having special foot adaptations helped these sizeable animals wander long distances, which meant a better chance to find plentiful food and water.
Australia’s Red Centre was once a lush forest filled with strange creatures – and we are slowly discovering more about this enigmatic past.
At twice the size of a wedge-tailed eagle, the newly discovered Dynatoaetus gaffae would have competed with thylacines and Tasmanian devils for prey.
Archaehierax sylvestris, whose remains have been unearthed in the arid South Australian outback, was the apex predator in a lush prehistoric forest filled with marsupials and waterfowl.
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