One species was twice as tall as today's red kangaroo, which can stand up to nearly 6 feet.
A team of researchers has identified three new species of giant kangaroos after examining fossils from Australia.Paleontologists from Adelaide's Flinders University recently reviewed multiple complete kangaroo fossils from Lake Callabonna in South Australia that were discovered in 2013, 2018 and 2019.
'A large but thick-boned and robust kangaroo, it was probably fairly slow-moving and inefficient. It may have hopped only rarely, perhaps just when startled,' Kerr said.Kerr's research spans five years. The researchers photographed and 3-D-scanned more than 800 specimens collected from Australia and New Guinea and compared them.'It was quite the undertaking,' Kerr said, according to the press release.
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