Ice-age hunters of Tasmania

Article Abstract:

Analysis of the seasonal growth bands (annuli) in fossil wallaby teeth suggests, incredibly, that humans were hunting in the upland cave sites during the coldest periods of ice age. People were cracking open bones for marrow, an important nutritional requirement for living in subantartic conditions, where plant carbohydrates are rare.

Tasmania, Glacial epoch, Ice age, Paleolithic diet

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Tammar Wallaby

Article Abstract:

Macropus eugenii derbianus and Macropus eugenii decres are the only remaining two sub species of Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii) found in Western Australia and Kangaroo Island respectively. Details of the various moves taken to bring the South Australian mainland species back from extinction are discussed.

Kangaroos

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Move over sabre-tooth tiger

Article Abstract:

A description is presented on the marsupial lion or Thylacoleo carnifex, a carnivore which lived during the Pleistocene era. Approximately the size of a leopard, the marsupial lion weighed an average of 120 kg, and is believed to have been a more fearsome, significant predator than Megalania prisca.

Cover Story, Origin, Marsupialia, Marsupials

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