24. Protemnodon with Isaac Kerr

Adele bounces off ideas with Dr Isaac Kerr to talk about extinct kangaroos! Isaac kicks things off by telling us about trips to New Guinea, the Smithsonian, American Natural History Museum and the NHM, photographing specimens and 3D scanning. We then hop into Protemnodon, discussing three new species, fieldwork in Lake Callabonna, and why fossil hunting is like fishing crossed with Christmas. 

Isaac's Monograph
Systematics and palaeobiology of kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae)

Flinders University
Giant kangaroos bounce back from the past

The Conversation
We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived

ABC News
Flinders University researchers identify three new species of extinct kangaroo

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