The Strange Walk of This Extinct Marsupial Giant Was Perfect For Roaming
Today, 80 percent of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way.
Source: sciencealert.com
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Today, 80 percent of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way.
Now, studies of the new Ambulator keanei’s bones – unearthed by a team at Flinders University in 2017 – show the diprotodontid adapted a heeled walk perfect
In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals.