I love Australia

Thanks to obob for reminding me that we all need a little humor to balance the very grim situation in the Middle East. He has a wonderful post about some of Australia's odd anscestral critters. Since I send a lot of clients to Australia, I thought I'd investigate further.

The Giant Short-Faced Kangaroo lived in the Pleistocene period (1.6M- 40,000 years ago)

Description:
Take a Red Kangaroo, double its size, replace its paws with grappling hooks, give it bizarre feet each with a single hoof-like claw, then allow it to run at super-high speed face-first into a wall. The result should vaguely resemble a Giant Short-faced Kangaroo, the largest kangaroo to have existed - and one of the strangest.

The Giant Short-faced Kangaroo had a flat face and forward-pointing eyes. On each foot it had a single large toe something like a horse's hoof. On these unusual feet it moved quickly through the open forests and plains, where it sought grass and leaves to eat. Its hands were equally strange: each hand had two extra-long fingers with large claws. Perhaps they were used to grab branches, bringing leaves within eating distance.

And you thought all kangaroos were sweet, cuddly things.