FOSSIL OF EXTINCT TREE CLIMBING KANGAROO IN AUSTRALIA LIVED IN A TREELESS PLAIN

 The most remarkable thing about the nearly perfect fossils was not that they belonged to 40-kilo kangaroos that mysteriously evolved to climb trees, though that was remarkable enough. What really startled palaeontologists is that southwestern Australia's Nullarbor Plain, site of the discovery, is treeless shrubland and was thought to be that way even when the newly named Congruus kitcheneri hopped — and, apparently, climbed — across its reaches some 50,000 years ago. The Latin-derived name says it all: "Null" for "none", and "arbor" for "tree".

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/fossil-of-extinct-tree-climbing-kangaroo-in-australia-lived-in-a-treeless-plain-9461371.html