Patrick Pester is a freelance writer and previously a staff writer at Live Science. His background is in wildlife conservation and he has worked with endangered species around the world. Patrick holds a master's degree in international journalism from Cardiff University in the U.K.
A"unique" fossil site in Western Australia is revealing the elusive remains of the world's largest ever marsupial, a museum has announced.
There are parts of the ancient marsupials' skulls, bones and teeth lying all over the ground, Gilbert Price, a paleontologist at the University of Queensland who is part of the excavation, said during a video interview at the site. Diprotodon emerged around 2 million years ago and went extinct about 25,000 years ago. Climate change and human activity may have been factors in their extinction, but they co-existed with Aboriginal people for more than 20,000 years, according to the Australian Museum in Sydney.
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