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Other views on kangaroo origins include the belief of some Australian [[aborigines]] that kangaroos were sung into existence by their ancestors during the "[[Dreamtime]]" <ref>[http://www.painsley.org.uk/RE/signposts/y8/1-1creationandenvironment/c-abor.htm "An Aborigine Creation Story"]</ref> and the evolutionary view that kangaroos and the other marsupials evolved from a common marsupial ancestor which lived millions of years ago.<ref>http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/australia.html</ref> It should be noted that these are not scientific viewpoints, but religious theories.
Other views on kangaroo origins include the belief of some Australian [[aborigines]] that kangaroos were sung into existence by their ancestors during the "[[Dreamtime]]" <ref>[http://www.painsley.org.uk/RE/signposts/y8/1-1creationandenvironment/c-abor.htm "An Aborigine Creation Story"]</ref> and the evolutionary view that kangaroos and the other marsupials evolved from a common marsupial ancestor which lived millions of years ago.<ref>http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/australia.html</ref> It should be noted that these are not scientific viewpoints, but religious theories.
===Prehistoric kangaroo genera===
According to evolutionary biology, these are some of the Kangaroo's ancestors:
* ''[[Procoptodon]]'', largest leaf-eating kangaroo
* ''[[Sthenurus]]'', "Strong Tail"
* ''[[Propleopus]]'', carnivorous kangaroo during the [[pliocene]] and [[pleistocene]] periods (e.g. giant rat kangaroo)
* ''[[Simosthenurus]]'', [[leaf-eating]] (browsing) kangaroos
== References ==
== References ==