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Ramsayia reconstruction (r) next to a modern wombat. Eleanor Pease

For the first time ever, we have a complete skull description of a true fossil giant wombat

Julien Louys, Griffith University; Gilbert Price, The University of Queensland; Mathieu Duval, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), and Robin Beck, University of Salford

80,000 years ago, Australia’s landscape was dominated by much larger versions of today’s marsupials – including enigmatic and enormous wombats.
Eleanor Scerri

Research reveals humans ventured out of Africa repeatedly as early as 400,000 years ago, to visit the rolling grasslands of Arabia

Julien Louys, Griffith University; Gilbert Price, The University of Queensland; Huw Groucutt, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, and Michael Petraglia, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

The new work presents the oldest dated evidence for hominins in Arabia, in the form of an ancient handaxe tool uncovered from the Nefud Desert.
Life and death in tropical Australia, 40,000 years ago. Giant reptiles ruled northern Australia during the Pleistocene with mega-marsupials as their prey. Image Credit: R. Bargiel, V. Konstantinov, A. Atuchin & S. Hocknull (2020). Queensland Museum.

Humans coexisted with three‑tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia

Scott Hocknull, The University of Melbourne; Anthony Dosseto, University of Wollongong; Gilbert Price, The University of Queensland; Lee Arnold, University of Adelaide; Patrick Moss, The University of Queensland, and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University

These megafauna were the largest land animals to live in Australia since the time of the dinosaurs.
An impression of what it could have looked like: a giant lizard, Megalania, stalks a herd of migrating Diprotodon, while a pair of massive megafaunal kangaroos look on. Laurie Beirne

Giant marsupials once migrated across an Australian Ice Age landscape

Gilbert Price, The University of Queensland

Studies of the fossil teeth of the three-tonne Diprotodon have revealed the now-extinct beast was Australia’s only known seasonally migrating marsupial.
The extinct kangaroo ate plants similar to those consumed by modern kangaroos in wet regions. Image from shutterstock.com

Prehistoric fossils reveal change in southeast Queensland climate

Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation

The fossilised teeth of kangaroos and other extinct marsupials reveal southeastern Queensland three million years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands, and much less arid than…

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