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New genus and species of Early Kangaroo; Remains from Riversleigh
Topic Started: Feb 22 2016, 03:48 PM (588 Views)
Paleodude
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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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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

It's always the Australians that come up with the best names for things.

Cookeroo... I like it.
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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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