Image: Reconstruction of the giant sloth-bear like marsupial, Palorchestes. Credit, Andrey Atuchin, Rochelle Lawrence & Scott Hocknull © 2020 Queensland Museum.
Palorchestes is also referred to as the ‘bear-sloth’ marsupial or marsupial ‘tapir’. Learn more about Palorchestes:
- Lived 4 million – 40,000 years ago
- Enormous snout with fleshy nose
- Once thought to be a giant version of a tree kangaroo
- Very small eyes for the size of its body
- Plant eater, probably a browser
- Found throughout Australia
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