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Giant Echidnas Once Roamed Australia’s Victoria, Fossil Shows


In a new paper published in The Alcheringa, an Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, paleontologists described a partial skull of the Owen’s giant echidna (Megalibgwilia owenii) from southeastern Australia.

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