Researchers Find Biggest Ever Giant Kangaroo Fossil

The discovery of complete skeletons from an ancient species of giant kangaroo has led researchers to uncover three unusual new species, with one weighing twice as much as a modern-day male red kangaroo. A study, authored by palaeontologists from Flinders University, which looked at the extinct Protemnodon species, described how the animals, while closely related, had distinctive ways of hopping when compared to today’s kangaroos. Protemnodon is a genus of extinct marsupials that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch (about 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago). They are part of a group of marsupials known as the diprotodontids, which includes the well-known giant kangaroos and wallabies....