Underground monsters found

Teeth like steak knives ... the skull of Australia's fierce marsupial lion that lived during the Ice Age.

Photo: Clay Bryce

Today we know it as a vast, treeless expanse of arid land, but
half a million years ago the Nullarbor Plain was a very different
place.

The red soil was covered in trees where colourful parrots nested
in hollows and tree kangaroos climbed the branches to feast on
leaves. Lumbering below were giant wombats, providing easy prey for
fierce marsupial lions roaming the area.

More info: http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/underground-monsters-found/2007/01/25/1169594402921.html

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