UNSW scientists will reintroduce burrowing bettongs, bilbies and other native mammals into large, predator-free enclosures in the state's west, as part of a new NSW Government initiative to protect threatened species.
Pound for pound, Australia's extinct marsupial lion would have made mincemeat of today's African lion had the two big hyper-carnivores ever squared off in a fight to the death, according to an Australian scientist.
