The Demon Duck of Doom

News from the outback:

Palaeontologists digging in northern Australia have found fossil evidence of several new species – including a “killer kangaroo”.
The flesh-eating marsupial would have lived between 10 and 20 million years ago, scientists say.

The research team has also unearthed evidence of a large carnivorous bird dubbed the “demon duck of doom”.

The dig site in Queensland has yielded remains of at least 20 previously unknown creatures….

Professor Mike Archer said the dig had turned up “truly extraordinary material”.

He said the killer kangaroos would not have been like the creatures of today.

“There were meat-eating kangaroos with long fangs, and galloping kangaroos with long forearms, which could not hop,” he told The Australian newspaper.

Meat-eating…long fangs and forearms…couldn’t hop. When is a kangaroo not a kangaroo?