goliah

"That," said he, "is the western -- and Lampton rides the shore circuit; and as for the people on the shore, they know so little of horses that, Lampton tells me, a man from Aylesford once sold a hornless ox there, whose tail he had cut and nicked for a horse of the goliah breed."

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Top row, left to right: Genyornis newtoni, Diprotodon optatum, Procoptodon goliah.

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Evidence suggests therefore that the P. goliah was hunted to extinction.

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Central to the debate has been the demise of the Australian megafauna, including animals such as marsupial lions, hippopotamus-sized wombats and the 2m-tall giant kangaroo Procoptodon goliah.

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Now, researchers from Australia and the US have combined radiocarbon dating with a so-called microwear analysis of the teeth of P. goliah to determine what it ate and drank.

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Scientists think they have discovered the reason behind the demise of the prehistoric Australian marsupial Procoptodon goliah - better known as the giant, short-snouted kangaroo.

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