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A recent has reported on a rare fossil find in the Naracoorte Caves area. Researchers have found 50,000 year old bones from the largest carnivorous ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n mammal in the Pleistocene epoch, the marsupial lion, in the south east of South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.

Researchers from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide and the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of New England used a CT-scanner to examine the internal bone structure of the animal to find out more about the extinct marsupial lion.

"We're working on when it was living here and what sort of environment it was living in," says ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Environment Institute Research Fellow .



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