Giant kangaroo twice the size of a human roamed Australia 5 million years ago, study reveals
by Daily Mail
Daily Mail— Scientists from Flinders University have discovered three species of giant kangaroo that roamed Australia five million years ago, with the biggest growing to twice the size of a human.
Daily Mail—Somerset's giant sea monster! Huge ichthyosaur twice the size of a London bus roamed the UK 200 million years ago, study reveals. Somerset's coastline was home to a huge ichthyosaur 200 million years ago. It was a whopping 25 meters (82 feet) long – twice the length of a London bus
The Independent—Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago – study. The findings push back the previous oldest dated example of the trait by nearly 300 million years.
Phys.org—Researchers reconstruct landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago. Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time—approximately 65,000 years ago—the first humans arrived in Sahul, a place previously devoid of any hominin species.