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Australia was dominated not by placental mammals – cats, dogs, elephants, apes, horses and others – as most continents were after the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago but by marsupials, mammals that give birth to immature young to be carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother’s belly.
Mukupirna weighed about 330 pounds (150 kg), similar to an American black bear and five times bigger that modern wombats.
“It may have looked a bit wombat-like, but with a smaller head, longer, less robust limbs and a longer tail. It probably fed on roots and tubers, which it could have dug up with its powerful forelimbs,” said Robin Beck, a lecturer in biology at the University of Salford in England who led the research published in the journal Scientific Reports.
“It is a very unusual animal, related to wombats but with its own unique features that led us to classify it in its own family,” Beck added.
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