prehistoric
Jul 1 2009, Seamus Byrne

Filed under: Food, News, Weird, Nature Aussies have heard the stories of ancient giant kangaroos, but it seems we now know the reason why they struggled to make it past the last ice age. No, it wasn’t climate change. It seems they were just too delicious

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