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Rare Ice Age fossil found in the Outback
Friday, October 12, 2012 23:47
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A RARE fossil of the largest marsupial to have ever lived from the Ice Age has been discovered at a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory.
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) received the large fossilised Diprotodon limb last week, after it was located at the very first Late Pleistocene megafauna site in the area.
Senior Curator of Earth Sciences, Dr Adam Yates, said staff at the MAGNT recognised the bone immediately as that of a Diprotodon,
“The Diprotodon was a giant four footed marsupial, distantly related to the wombat,” he said.
