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Gigantic Long Beaked Echidna (Zaglossus hacketti)

This particular Echidna lived during the Upper Pleistocene era which was millions of years long and ended just over twenty thousand years ago. It was about a metre long, apparently the size of a sheep. How marvellous! A giant echidna! What were they thinking?
The Upper Pleistocene era in Australia is characterised by a cornucopia of [...]