US EditionFound in a Museum, This Fossil Reveals that This Giant Echidne Used to Populate South-East Australia at the Glacial Age.
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It is in the reserves of a museum, not in the field, that a paleontological discovery has just completed the map of the Australian megafauna. Tim Ziegler, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museums Victoria Research Institute, identified a megalibgwilia owenii fossil — the giant echidne of Owen — in the collections of the Melbourne Museum. The study, published in April 2026 in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, confirms…
A skull fragment from a cave in Victoria shows that an extinct giant echidna also roamed there during the Ice Age. Subscribe to the newsletter! Want the latest science news fresh in your inbox every day? Or every week? Subscribe to the newsletter here! Paleontologists have found the first known […] in an old museum collection. More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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