07-14-2006, 10:02 AM
Quote:Palaeontologists digging in northern Australia have found fossil evidence of several new species - including a "killer kangaroo".
The flesh-eating marsupial would have lived between 10 and 20 million years ago, scientists say.
The research team has also unearthed evidence of a large carnivorous bird dubbed the "demon duck of doom"...
"There were meat-eating kangaroos with long fangs, and galloping kangaroos with long forearms, which could not hop,"...
full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pa...172292.stm
