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Horned kangaroo found in outback
The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^
| 06/15/03
| Paul Ham
Posted on 06/14/2003 4:44:04 PM PDT by Pokey78
A KANGAROO with a snout like a trumpet roamed the Australian outback half a million years ago, say palaeontologists who found remains of the creature, writes Paul Ham. The animal, yet to be named, used its snout to sound the alarm when danger approached.
Scientists at the Western Australian museum in Perth say the kangaroo, found two weeks ago in a cave on Western Australia’s Nullarbor plain, also had a horn-like protrusion, probably made from cartilage.
It is believed to have been a cousin of the 12ft procoptodon, the largest kangaroo ever found.
This was the age of Australia’s “megafauna”, when wombats grew to 5ft long, about three times their size today.
Dr John Long, leader of the research team, said: “We knew very little about the kangaroos that once lived on the Nullarbor and now . . . we have recovered the remains of an adult horned kangaroo. It has bony ledges — forming a ‘horn’ — that stick out above the eye to protect the face against the hard salt bush.”
The expedition also found two new specimens of the marsupial lion thylacoleo carnifex.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; kangaroo
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:44:04 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
A KANGAROO . . . used its snout to sound the alarm when danger approached. God has a sense of humor.
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:47:22 PM PDT
by
JoeSchem
(Okay, now it works: Knight's Quest, at http://wwwgeocities.com/engineerzero)
To: Pokey78
"Aaaand the music goes round and round and comes out here..."
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:48:51 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(Superstition is a mind in chains.)
To: Pokey78
Five foot Wombats?
Don't they have those in the NOW organization today?
This is series! Vey series!
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:50:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: Pokey78
The expedition also found two new specimens of the marsupial lion thylacoleo carnifex.
One of which was later spotted at the signing of her new book, "Lying History".
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:51:35 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: Pokey78
Are they saying this was a ......
Kangalope ???
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:52:20 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: Pokey78
They must have found some very old recordings along with the bones.
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:52:24 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: JoeSchem
Ever seen a platypus? God has a lot more than a sense of humor...fyi.
Or a bed-wetting, hand-wringing, whining crybaby liberal, for that matter? He really has a sense ofhumor to allow those creatures to live and breed.
To: Pokey78; blam
Pre-historic Australian Megafauna wiped out by the arrival of Man bump!
To: Hinoki Cypress
Or a bed-wetting, hand-wringing, whining crybaby liberal, for that matter? At the risk of being burned at the stake as a Manichean, those are the products of SATAN.
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:54:33 PM PDT
by
LibKill
(MOAB, the greatest advance in Foreign Relations since the cat-o'-nine-tails!)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:55:36 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: Pokey78
A KANGAROO with a snout like a trumpet...The animal, yet to be named...
How about "Satchmo"?
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:57:13 PM PDT
by
judgeandjury
(The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.)
To: Pokey78
Did they say horned or horny?
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posted on
06/14/2003 4:59:08 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: Pokey78
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:04:19 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: JoeSchem
Oooh "horned", excuse me...
To: Porterville
that is a jackalope not a kangalope, like it though
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:11:47 PM PDT
by
rontorr
(It's only my opinion, but I am RIGHT)
To: tet68
Or perhaps a Uni-roo
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:14:30 PM PDT
by
skr
To: tet68
The expedition also found two new specimens of the marsupial lion thylacoleo carnifex. Are we certain that Mr. Ham never was never previously employed by the NYT? While not trumpeting my snout, I have the strangest feeling that our femurs our being disjointed. :)
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:16:19 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: Pokey78
Bump
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:16:34 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(~~~ http://www.ourgangnet.net ~~~~~)
To: Alas Babylon!
"Pre-historic Australian Megafauna wiped out by the arrival of Man bump! I don't believe that theory.
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posted on
06/14/2003 5:17:28 PM PDT
by
blam
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