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| New genus and species of Early Kangaroo; Remains from Riversleigh | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 22 2016, 03:48 PM (588 Views) | |
| Paleodude | Feb 22 2016, 03:48 PM Post #1 |
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"A University of Queensland (UQ)-led study has discovered a new genus and two new species of extinct kangaroos which couldn't hop, but may have been ancestral to all kangaroos and wallabies living today." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoq-nsc022116.php |
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| Incinerox | Feb 22 2016, 04:01 PM Post #2 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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It's always the Australians that come up with the best names for things. Cookeroo... I like it. |
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| babehunter1324 | Feb 23 2016, 04:14 AM Post #3 |
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Very cool, I wonder if this species might be related (or be) the direct ancestor of not just modern wallabies and Kangaroo's but also to Sthenurinae and Dendrolagus, in which case I wonder if those two groups may never had ancesters adapted for hopping on two legs (or at least not to the same extent as modern species). |
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