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Reuters is horning in on Blue Crab Boulevard's extensive reporting of the animal uprising! Ok, sort of. Ok, not really. But it gives us a post title, so what the heck. Anyway, they are reporting that scientists have discovered "killer kangaroos and demon ducks of doom" once inhabited Australia.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilised remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a "demon duck of doom".
A University of New South Wales team said the fearsome fossils were among 20 previously unknown species uncovered at a site in northwest Queensland state.
Professor Michael Archer said on Wednesday the remains of a meat-eating kangaroo with wolf-like fangs were found as well as a galloping kangaroo with long forearms that could not hop like a modern kangaroo.
"Because they didn't hop, these were galloping kangaroos, with big, powerful forelimbs. Some of them had long canines (fangs) like wolves," Archer told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.
Vertebrate palaeontologist Sue Hand said modern kangaroos look almost nothing like their ferocious forebears, which lived between 10 million and 20 million years ago.
Aren't you glad the animal uprising doesn't have shock troops like that. Or do they?
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Blog Archive » Attention North Dakota! — Wednesday, 12 July , 2006 @ 4:24 pm
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Wednesday, 12 July , 2006 @ 8:17 am
Man, “Demon Ducks of Doom” has your name written all over it; they obviously are ripping you off. I’d nuisance sue them scientists.
By Gaius, Wednesday, 12 July , 2006 @ 8:32 am
Heh.