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We spent 2 years in deep underground caves to bring this extraordinary fossil to light
Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages.
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Short-faced Kangaroo, Simosthenurus occidentalis (Glauert, 1910)
<p><em>Simosthenurus occidentalis</em> was a short-faced kangaroo that lived during the Pleistocene Epoch in Australia. This fossil skeleton is one of the most complete examples of the species ever found. It was retrieved from deep underground in a cave north of Buchan, East Gippsland. The...
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