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Extraordinary Fossil of Giant Short-Faced Kangaroo Found in Australia


Paleontologists from the Museums Victoria Research Institute and elsewhere have unearthed a nearly 50,000-year-old skeleton of Simosthenurus occidentalis in Nightshade Cave, eastern Victoria, Australia.

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