Giant echidnas weighing 15kg roamed Victoria – and the evidence was hiding in plain sight
By Donna Lu

A skull fragment found in a tray of unsorted fossils collected more than a century ago leads to discovery

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/owens-giant-echidna-fossil-victoria

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This week’s Fossil Friday is a pair of enamelled gar scales. Gars are ray-finned fish whose bodies are covered in tough, often shiny scales; the enamelled surface helps protect them and gives many specimens a distinctive look in the field and in collections.

These scales were collected from Red Rock Coulee in 2006 by Hope Johnson. They are catalogued as APS2006.050.

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