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First discovery from 'New Riversleigh' -- a new extinct carnivorous marsupial

2016-07-25 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] A new species of extinct flesh-eating marsupial that terrorised Australia's drying forests about 5 million years ago has been identified from a fossil discovered in remote northwestern Queensland. The hypercarnivore, which is thought to have weighed about 20 to 25 kilograms, is a distant and much bigger cousin of Australia's largest living, flesh-eating marsupial, the Tasmanian Devil, which weighs in at about 10 kilogram. Named Whollydooleya tom…

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