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Richard Seeker 
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Tue Nov 18, 1:19 am ET CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said Tuesday. Scientists said they had for the first time mapped the genetic code of the Australian marsupials and found much of it was similar to the genome for humans, the government-backed Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics said. "There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order," centre Director Jenny Graves told reporters in Melbourne. "We thought they'd be completely scrambled, but they're not. There is great chunks of the human genome which is sitting right there in the kangaroo genome," Graves said, according to AAP. Humans and kangaroos last shared an ancestor at least 150 million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans diverged from one another only 70 million years ago. Kangaroos first evolved in China, but migrated across the Americas to Australia and Antarctica, they said. "Kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago," Graves said. (Reporting by Rob Taylor; Editing by David Fox) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081118/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_kangaroos;_ylt=Ambrf7T9apyAkOW6DteQgWHtiBIF
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Astrojewels Super Moderator 
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Interesting article Richard, It has been said that many of the animals here in Australia are the product of the genetic manipulation/experimentation that occurred in Atlantis, and I get to see kangaroo’s everyday so I have often watched their behavior, and they are amazing, but I find it very hard to believe they first evolved in china.
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Richard Seeker
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The article surprised me too saying they came from China. I had never heard that before. It makes me wonder what evidence do they have to support that idea. Also why aren’t there any kangaroos left out there.
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Astrojewels Super Moderator
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I suppose they are talking millions of years ago before there was so much ocean between china and oz, but I agree that there should be some type of proof there, and it seems a bit weird to go from china to Americas then oz?
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