This one I've included purely for interest value. This giant kangaroo-type animal, Procoptodon Goliah, was the largest kangaroo that ever lived. It stood up to 3 metres tall and weighed several hundred kilograms. It had a short, rounded face and longer arms that the kangaroos that we have today. They became extinct somewhere between 30 000 and 40 000 years ago.





So why is this so interesting? Because we have personally found fossilised remains of these animals, but not today and not in this area. When we lived in The Caves we found quite a few fossils in the creeks that were on our little piece of paradise. One favourite I gave to my young neice-in-law... a girl with an interest in rocks and fossils (always good to see). I thought at the time that it may have been the head from an animal related to a wombat, but nope. 
Look, K... this is what it is.

And my most favourite fossil of all is a small Procoptodon foot which has been bent over and partially encased in limestone... probably the result of a mud slide or something. Here it is, but remember, we didn't find this here today... although where we did find it was only a few kilometres away.