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Giant extinct kangaroos' preference for home over roaming may have sealed their fate
Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when climate change caused that home to disappear, according to a study ...
Fossil teeth show extinct giant kangaroos spent their lives close to home – and perished when the climate changed
Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...
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The Ancient ‘Terror Crocodiles’ of North America Weren’t Alligators After All, DNA and Fossils Suggest
A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...
Australia once had giant kangaroos — here's what experts think happened to them
A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less ...
Discovery shows bizarre behaviour led to extinction of giant kangaroos at ancient site
Scientists made the discovery at an outback research site in Central Queensland’s Mt Etna Caves region. For thousands of ...
Extinct Animals That Lived Alongside the Native Americans
Did you know Native Americans once shared the land with some truly wild creatures that are now extinct? 🦣 From woolly ...
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Ancient Giant Kangaroos Were Homebodies, New Study Concludes, Contributing To Their Extinction
It’s wonderful to imagine kangaroos almost four times the size of big reds hopping around ancient Australia, but this lot ...
Forget dire wolves. New York was once home to giant beavers, mastodons and more.
Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...
Cameras captured this endangered giant reptile: It’s the first sighting in over a decade
Local news media and animal lovers, as well as park officials, have all delighted in the news, with one media outlet saying that the sighting of the rare species “has renewed optimism for the species’ ...
An ancient ‘terror crocodile’ became a dinosaur-eating giant. Scientists say they now know why
One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...
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How giant prehistoric kangaroos were wiped out
Scientists used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric Protemnodon and its implications for the species’ ...