Two features unite them: a generally large body size and being extinct. By 40,000 years ... the rhino-sized marsupial Diprotodon, marsupial lions and many others. The cause of this extinction ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds ...

For decades, a model of a partial skeleton of the marsupial lion — Thylacoleo carnifex ... has challenged academic understandings of the extinct carnivore. Discoveries at Naracoorte in ...

"We had a marsupial lion. We had all sorts of crazy things." Then, about 40,000 to 65,000 years ago, most of these large animal species went extinct, including all of the short-faced kangaroos and ...

Two features unite them: a generally large body size and being extinct. By 40,000 years ... birds , the rhino-sized marsupial Diprotodon , marsupial lions and many others. The cause of this ...