Scientists have known about thylacoleo carnifex or Marsupial Lion, for some time, but never has a complete skeleton been found. Now, four years after the discovery, scientists from the Western Australian Museum have announced what their research has produced.
The story of the discover of the Marsupial Lion can be found here and here.
This is what the Beast of the Nullabor could look like:
This little fella could stand on his back legs, balanced by a tail, just like a kangaroo. (Probably a good thing given that kangeroos were about three metres tall and wombats were the size of small cars.) He could climb, stalk his prey, slash at his victims with sharp claws, use his long incisor teeth to kill; yet became extinct.
Within that cave in the middle of nowhere were other discoveries; some of unidentified species. I'm rather excited to learn about those creatures, too.
It's nice to know that we, as humans, still haven't catelogued all those species who died millenia ago; that there is something new under the sun (or desert sands).
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