A history of the marsupial lion
- Written by Pete Minard, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University., La Trobe University
The spectacular Wellington Caves are a tourist attraction - and a fossil site. winam/flickr , CC BY-NC-ND“Marsupial lions” lived on the Australian continent from about 24 million years ago up until the end of the Pleistocene era, about 30,000 years ago.
Of course they weren’t really lions, but an extinct species of marsupial with...