Scientists at Flinders University have carried out a study of the teeth of extinct fossil kangaroos from the Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area in South Australia and compared them with living kangaroos. They used a scanning technique that revealed microscopic wear patterns on the teeth, which indicate what kind of food they were eating. It […]
The fossil of a giant wombat skull has been found in a Central Queensland cave. The fossil has been classified as Ramsayia magna, a species previously known from isolated teeth and jaw fragments. Researchers estimate the wombat was the size of a “really large sheep” and weighed around 130kg. Modern day wombats can grow to […]
Giant hippos lived in warm Britain, according to reports in ScienceDaily and University of Leicester News 4 October 2021 and Journal of Quaternary Science, 4 October 2021 doi: 10.1002/jqs.3375. Palaeontologists from University of Leicester and Royal Holloway, University of London, have found the tooth of an extinct hippopotamus named Hippopotamus antiquus in Westbury Cave in […]