Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials

ScienceDaily is reporting that fossils discovered in Queensland have revealed a previously unknown order of marsupials that may have thrived in Australia for approximately thirty-five million years. The find challenges the conventional understanding that all of Australia's unique marsupials descended from a single ancestral line, instead suggesting a far more complex evolutionary branching. This discovery rewrites a significant chapter in how scientists understand the continent's distinctive mammalian history.

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