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07-28-2016, 04:34 AM
Australia used to be home to a flesh-eating marsupial, because of course it did
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Australia has plenty of scary animals, and **w you can add a large flesh-eating marsupial to the list.
A distant cousin of the Tasmanian devil, but double the size at roughly 20 to 25 kilograms (44 to 55 lbs), the extinct animal has been named the "Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum."*
SEE ALSO: Young seal thinks he's people; makes the public toilet his new home (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/seal-found-in-toilet-australia/)
The hypercarnivore, which means more than 70 percent of its diet is meat, was identified from a fossil found at a site called New Riversleigh located in **rth-western Queensland. Based off its teeth, it's an animal you definitely wouldn't want to mess with. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/flesh-eating-marsupial-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Australia has plenty of scary animals, and **w you can add a large flesh-eating marsupial to the list.
A distant cousin of the Tasmanian devil, but double the size at roughly 20 to 25 kilograms (44 to 55 lbs), the extinct animal has been named the "Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum."*
SEE ALSO: Young seal thinks he's people; makes the public toilet his new home (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/seal-found-in-toilet-australia/)
The hypercarnivore, which means more than 70 percent of its diet is meat, was identified from a fossil found at a site called New Riversleigh located in **rth-western Queensland. Based off its teeth, it's an animal you definitely wouldn't want to mess with. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/flesh-eating-marsupial-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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