red kangaroo
Britishnoun
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The three new species are of the extinct genus Protemnodon, which lived from around 5 million to 40,000 years ago -- with one about double the size of the largest red kangaroo living today.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024
In April, two men were arrested when a red kangaroo was found in their truck during a routine police check on a highway close to West Bengal's border with the north-eastern state of Assam.
From BBC • May 22, 2022
The species is much smaller than Australia’s well-known red kangaroo.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022
At Attica, chef Ben Shewry's celebrated Australian restaurant, diners might sample red kangaroo, whipped emu egg or "pests of the neighborhood."
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2018
Just as in the Americas, in Australia all of those few candidates except the red kangaroo became extinct around the time of the continent’s first colonization by humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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