Anon. "Prehistoric Beasts: Devil Pig and Kangaroo Lion," Clarence and Richmond Examiner, Grafton (2 July 1910)

It is possible, says Professor [Edgeworth] David, that some of the supposed extinct beasts that once lived in Australia may still be alive in the wilds of tropical New Guinea. Mr. McCabe told how the huge prehistoric monsters that once inhabited the earth crept off, in the ice ages, to the tropical belts. Speaking of the British Museum's expedition in Dutch New Guinea, Professor David told how some years ago in British territory an exploring party found the spoor of what may have been a nototherium–a wombat-like small elephant. Traces of the kangaroo-lion, a flesh-eating beast that has left its tooth-marks on the bones of other big animals, may also, he says, be found there.

"The high snow-capped ranges of eastern New Guinea," said Professor David, "are certainly amongst the least known of the important ranges of the world ... The Hon. Anthony Musgrave, secretary of Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Queensland, told me that when some years ago exploring Eastern New Guinea in company with Sir William MacGregor, his party reached the top of a high plateau, over 8000ft above sea-level. Here they discovered numbers of large lakes and extensive swamps, and in the soft mud round these swamps the spoor was seen in several places of a high animal–far larger than the native pig of New Guinea (sus papuensis).

"The natives told Mr. Musgrave that they had seen the animal which left the spoor. So far as he could judge from the account given of this creature, which the natives described as a "devil pig," it was something like a tapir. Possibly it was a living representative of the extinct gigantic marsupials of Australia, such as the diprotodon and the nototherium ... It is to be hoped that when the present expedition has finished exploring Dutch New Guinea it will extend its field of operations to the high plateau in eastern New Guinea, in British territory. Then it may get on to the spoor of this supposed nototherium, if possible settle the question whether the animal is extinct, and get information as to its habits."

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