Abrupt extinction of short-faced kangaroo a reminder to protect the environment, palaeontologists say
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When a caver and Gippsland local, Joshua Van Dyk, stumbled across the fossilised remains of a kangaroo species that had been extinct for about 46,000 years, it seemed as though the macropod was making eye contact with him.
“It had fallen behind some rocks … and was looking straight at me,” Joshua recalls of the 2011 discovery he made in a cave near Buchan in east Gippsland.
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