Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago
- Written by: Jacob van Zoelen, PhD Candidate, Flinders University
Jacob van Zoelen, Author providedToday, 80% of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way. In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals.
As the climate dried out in the late Pliocene, open woodland, grassland and shrubland spread across Australia....
