The director of the. Australian Museum. Dr Anderson, stated at Sydney recently that the discovery of the skeleton of a 14foot kangaroo in the south-east of South Australia was most interesting. Some of those large extinct marsupials lived 30.000 years ago, but died out when the blacks first came, about 20,000 years ago.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 45
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