{"id":721554,"date":"2026-04-13T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/museum-fossil-reveals-that-extinct-giant-echidnas-once-roamed-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:15:12","slug":"museum-fossil-reveals-that-extinct-giant-echidnas-once-roamed-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/museum-fossil-reveals-that-extinct-giant-echidnas-once-roamed-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum fossil reveals that extinct giant echidnas once roamed Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas roamed southeastern Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch, filling a major knowledge gap in the continent&#8217;s prehistoric fauna. New research by Museums Victoria Research Institute scientists Tim Ziegler and Jeremy Lockett <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing in Alcheringa has identified the extinct Owen&#8217;s giant echidna, Megalibgwilia owenii, among fossils collected at Foul Air Cave, Buchan, Victoria. The fragmentary skull\u2014thought to have been among the first megafauna fossils retrieved from the renowned Buchan Caves\u2014fills a gap of over 1,000 kilometers between previous finds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Science category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-museum-fossil-reveals-extinct-giant.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas roamed southeastern Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch, filling a major knowledge gap in the continent&#8217;s prehistoric fauna. New research by Museums Victoria Research Institute scientists Tim Ziegler and Jeremy Lockett appearing in Alcheringa has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2016\/09\/06\/18\/22\/visitors-1649815_960_720.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sciencee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}