Giant kangaroo: no relationship with the Australian

Research shows that the giant kangaroo dating back to the last ice age, it was unrelated to today’s Australian kangaroos. Instead, it is an unknown kangaroo that is more unique than rare in New Guinea.
Australia was home to all kinds of giant animals (megafauna), this kangaroo died out 40 thousand years ago.

Fossil finds from the New Guinea they witnessed the bond of fascinating and special animals with others
from Australia. In 1970, two jaws of an extinct kangaroo named
Protemnodon name. These found fossils date back to about 20,000-50,000 years ago and are from the mountains of New Guinea. Along with these, other members of another giant four-legged kangaroo called Diprotondontidae were also discovered.

At Flinders University in Australia who i . assesses fossils there was a discovery of the Protemnodon
unexpected. He was not a Protemnodon, but a much more archaic type. It was his own that set him apart
choose with curved enamel combs. It was renamed Nombe nombe. This species could date from
a primitive kangaroo that migrated from Australia to New Guinea 5-8 million years ago.

The migration is said to have been made possible by a land bridge connecting the two islands of New Guinea and Australia. It was once possible for the much lower sea level. This allowed the first Australian mammals to migrate to the rainforests of New Guinea.

Here we can consider Nombe as the descendant of one of these old kangaroos. Clear
the habitat has shaped its physical features. The animal is stocky and muscular given the landscape
mountainous of New Guinea. In addition, he has a thick jaw with strong chewing muscles. A lot
however, more remains to be discovered. For example, if Nombe jumped like modern kangaroos and the reason for his
become extinct.