scipaThe ancient ancestor of the kangaroo
December 10th 2007 18:14
True!
Ok, ok... they're kangaroo sausages.
But what came before the kangaroo? An egg? A smaller kangaroo? A little gift box?
No, my fine feathered friends! It turns out that the great-great-great-great-grand parents of the kangaroo is a quirky little animal called nambaroo gillespieae.
Easy name, eh? Let's just call it a nambaroo.
A research team from Australia found fossilized remains of the nambaroo in the 1990s in Queensland.
Paleontologist Ben Kear said that that the ancient kangaroo:
"...which was about the size of a small dog and had canine fangs, had "big, muscly forearms'' that showed it galloped or bounded like a brush-tailed possum."
Sounds rough, eh?
Well, the kangaroo didn't get a fierce reputation as a boxer for nothing...
Luckily, the nambaroo ate fruit and fungus, not human babies. Bouncing around, climbing trees, bouncing on limbs... what we're dealing with is the prehistoric version of the Gummi Bears.
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