Welcome to Behind The Scenes, where a Cosmos journalist pulls back the curtain to explore the exciting science in institutions around Australia. Today, Jacinta Bowler visits the palaeontology lab at Flinders University to talk with Professor Gavin Prideaux about his latest exciting discovery: a prehistoric mega-kangaroo.

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