I think the museum in Adelaide has some fossilised remains of a large roo, from memory there was also supposed to be a massive wombat, will see if i can find a link.
Edit to add this.
All of these fossils were found in the one location in South Australia at the Naracoorte caves, about a 3 hr drive from here.
www.abc.net.au...
wouldnt want to find this cat in your garbage can, Thylacoleo carnifex (i think a full skeleton of the lion was discovered and it was thought to have weighed well over 120 kilos and was 2 metres long)
commonly called the marsupial lion, it had a cat-like skull with large slicing premolars or cheek teeth. Combined with a large retractable thumb claw and powerful forelimbs this animal would have been a fearsome predator.
you call that a lizard, nah this is a lizard, Megalania prisca
- a goanna of terrifying proportions, 6 metres long and able to look you in the eye. The first fossil of this goanna was only found at Naracoorte in 2000.
i think this is an ancestor to the wombat, Diprotodon australis.
the largest marsupial to ever live in Australia, weighing over two tonnes. It is rarely found in the cave deposits, because its sheer size prevented it from falling through most cave openings.
[edit on 15/8/06 by mojo4sale]
