Giant fossil kangaroos: scientists identify three new species of extinct megafauna

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Giant fossil kangaroos: scientists identify three new species of extinct megafauna

Protemnodon viator believed to have weighed up to 170kg – double the size of the largest species alive todaySupersized marsupials roamed the Australian continent for millennia. But until now the understanding of giant kangaroos – or Protemnodon – has been confined to isolated bones and difficult-to-distinguish species.Scientists have now identified three new species of the extinct giant kangaroo – Protemnodon viator, Protemnodon mamkurra and Pro…