‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago
by Sharlotte Thou from Science | The Guardian on (#6MDZF)
Abrupt extinction of short-faced kangaroo a reminder to protect the environment, palaeontologists say
When a caver and Gippsland local, Joshua Van Dyk, stumbled across the fossilised remains of a kangaroo species that had been extinct for about 46,000 years, it seemed as though the macropod was making eye contact with him.
It had fallen behind some rocks ... and was looking straight at me," Joshua recalls of the 2011 discovery he made in a cave near Buchan in east Gippsland.
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