# Killer Kangaroos!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 14, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438 "2006-07-14T05:33:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/1 "2006-07-14T05:33:51Z")

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Ok, so they’ve been dead ten million years, but the idea of a [carnivorous kangaroo](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13825566/?GT1=8307) is immensely entertaining to me. Not to mention giant, possibly meat-eating ducks!

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> Professor Michael Archer said Wednesday that the remains of a meat-eating kangaroo with wolflike fangs were found, as well as a galloping kangaroo with long forearms that could not hop like a modern kangaroo.

Very cool!

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/2 "2006-07-14T05:43:09Z")

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They needed those massive teeth to rip out the jugular from the dropbears which were their main prey. Ultimately, however, the dropbears won the evolutionary battle (mean bastards _they_ are) so that’s why there’s no more meat-eating Skippies in Aus.

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**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/3 "2006-07-14T06:00:35Z")

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Not to burst anyone’s bubble but **Tuckerfan** [posted this thread already.](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379350)

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/4 "2006-07-14T06:06:48Z")

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Not according to **that** link. 😃

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**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/5 "2006-07-14T07:07:13Z")

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What, you want a working link as well as a snarky comment? You people.

[Whinge whinge whinge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379350)

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/6 "2006-07-14T07:20:54Z")

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_Thankyew_ **Buckler** …I note from the linked thread that you have already mentioned the dreaded lethal bear thingies that I alluded to in _my_ post.

You may thus consider it redundant, and I am suitably chastened.

Bastard 😃

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**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/7 "2006-07-14T07:29:20Z")

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> [@kambuckta](#):
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> You may thus consider it redundant, and I am suitably chastened.

Nonsense, the foul beasties can never be mentioned too many times. Rumours of their non-existence abound. We must alert the masses!

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-kangaroos/364438/8 "2006-07-14T07:43:12Z")

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We must!!

I am personally appalled at the number of tourists who come here unaware of the danger posed by dropbears. Those damned crocodiles and blue-ringed octopuses get all the media attention, but they never seem to publicise the fatalities from dropbear massacres.

D’ya reckon the Tourism Authorities have gone all spin?

😃