Scientists have identified an ancient marsupial for the first time, whose special adaptations allowed it to walk huge distances across the Australian continent 3.5 million years ago. And it's a ...

As to why the Diprotodon fossils were all found together, the researchers think the animals must have gotten trapped somehow in what was a boglike area. They were possibly there taking refuge from ...

This photo taken at the Australian Museum in Sydney on June 21, 2012, shows a reconstructed model of a "diprotodon," an ancient rhino-sized wombat.

Researchers is uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth -- the 2.5 tonne wombat-like Diprotodon. Standing 1.8 meters tall and reaching up to 3.5 meters in length ...

The Diprotodon, the largest marsupial that ever lived with a weight of 3 tons, was discovered to be a migratory species. ... With the tooth fossil revealing different geological signatures, ...

If you traveled back in time 46,000 years to the Pleistocene epoch in Australia, you would witness a landscape of bizarre creatures. There were giant kangaroos, flightless terror-birds, 23-foot ...

While the Diprotodon ... The complete skull of this true fossil giant wombat, found in a Rockhampton cave in Queensland, Australia and estimated to be around 80,000 years old, ...

SOME years ago, under dates June 21 and June 28, 1894, NATURE contained a notice of an extensive deposit, at Lake Callabonna, South Australia, of fossil bones of Diprotodon, Phascolonus, various ...

CITIC Pacific Mining also facilitated a site visit from school students from St Luke’s, Karratha Senior High School and the Clontarf Academy Karratha. The students were given the once-in-lifetime ...

The Bunyip, a legendary Australian water monster, might be rooted in encounters with Diprotodon fossils. This enormous herbivore, related to wombats, stood taller than a person and lived until ...