24 MILLION YEARS TO GET FROM DUCK TO DUCK:

When killer kangaroos roamed the earth (Reuters, 7/11/06)

Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. Paleontologists say they have found the fossilized remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a "demon duck of doom."

A University of New South Wales team said the fearsome fossils were among 20 previously unknown species uncovered at a site in Australia's northwest Queensland state.

Pity the poor biologists, they've been waiting around so long to find anything meaningful that even they don't take their stories seriously anymore.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 12, 2006 4:17 PM