‘Marsupial lions’ aren’t really lions - but they did have teeth that formed a pair of secateur-like blades. The newly found species lived in forests of Queensland around 20 million years ago.
The marsupial lion is just one of numerous megafauna, or "big animals," that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch (1.7 million to 10,000 years ago). All of them are gone forever ...
Described as a cross between a wombat and a marsupial lion, the beast - named Mukupirna fortidentata - is thought to have weighed up to 50kg (110lb). Skull, bone and jaw fragments from the animal ...
‘Marsupial lions’ aren’t really lions - but they did have teeth that formed a pair of secateur-like blades. The newly found species lived in forests of Queensland around 20 million years ago.