The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

A skull and other fossils from northeastern Australia belong to a new species in the extinct family of marsupial lions. This newly named species, Wakaleo schouteni, was a predator about the size of a ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full skeleton of the predatory, prehistoric animal known as the “marsupial lion” which roamed Australia thousands of years ago. Using recently ...

Contrary to the docile koalas, the mythical drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials in Australian ...

It’s been 30,000 years since the last of the marsupial lions prowled for prey in Australia, but scientists continue to discover new species of the largest meat-eating mammals that ever lived on the ...

Reconstruction of Wakaleo schouteni challenging the thylacinid Nimbacinus dicksoni over a kangaroo carcass in the late Oligocene forest at Riversleigh. Peter Schouten Australia is a weird place.

A meat-eating marsupial the size of a plump dog with the tree-climbing prowess of a possum once roamed Australia's rainforests. Scientists say it's a new species of marsupial lion, which they've named ...

Australian scientists have uncovered fossil remains of a new species of marsupial lion in Australia's most famous fossil site, Riversleigh. The new species is believed to have been extinct for nearly ...

My colleagues and I have discovered a new species of marsupial lion, Wakaleo schouteni, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwest Queensland. The species was the size of a Collie dog and ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of lion, the size of a domestic cat, with powerful flesh-cutting teeth, which roamed the earth around 24 million years ago. Paleontologists discovered the ...

Australia is a weird place. Because of its location and that fact that life there has evolved in a vacuum — isolated from much of the rest of the world since the breakup up of the continents — many ...