
Guess what it is time for extreme creatures giants of the past post for this week, this week it is the Giant Kangaroo…….
The giant short-faced kangaroo was about the same height as a red kangaroo but more then twice as heavy. Instead of a graceful snout, it had a thick flat face and long arms for pulling down branches to eat leaves.
Its extinction may have been due to climate shifts during the Pleistocene, or to human hunting. Those who support the hypothesis of a human-mediated extinction process cite that the arrival of humans to continental Australia occurred around the same time as the disappearance of this species.
Dearest Jo-Anne,
So many species have become extinct, either due to lack of food for them in their habitat or whatever natural disasters.
Hugs,
Mariette
Weird… got twice the message: Sorry this comment could not be posted…
Luckily I did ‘copy’ it and just tried a third time!
Good thing you copy the comment, third times a charm, we can only guess why animals die out
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