Category: Wildlife
Scientists Discover New Member of Lion Family
Researchers have classified a new species of marsupial carnivore which hunted Queensland’s rainforests 23 million years ago. They made the discovery while studying fragments of bone that is believed to have been dug up decades ago at the heritage-listed Riversleigh Fossil Field in the state’s far north west. It was originally thought the bones belonged to another species of Australian
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