From: Pierre@home.be (Pierre)
Subject: Extinct Animals - Part 9 > File 05 of 10 - PO_ExtAn_085_Zaglossus_hacketti.jpg (1/1)
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 16:19:41 GMT
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Habitat: (A state containing the western third of Australia) Western Australia
Era: Upper (From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution) Pleistocene
Remarks: This species is known only from a few bones. At a metre long, it was huge for an echidna and for (The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria) monotremes in general. |
