Introducing the numbat
This little guy's name came up in a letter-scramble word game at the NYT that I'm addicted to working every morning. I'd never heard of him, but he looks like a mash-up between a possum, an armadillo, and a fox. He eats termites. Some really peculiar creatures developed on the isolated Australian continent.
I was looking for "something unusual not a dinosaur or mastadon," and found the paleofauna of the Southern Hemisphere. Just the killer kangaroos and giant wombats alone were wonderful story fodder.
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