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Digging up new species of Australia and New Guinea's giant fossil kangaroos - EurekAlert

<p>Palaeontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method than previously thought.The three new species are of the extinct genus&nbsp;<em>Protemnodon,</em>&nbsp;which lived from around 5 million to 40,000 years ago &ndash; with one about double the size of the largest red kangaroo living today.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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