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 ...

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 ...

Diprotodon, a relative of the ... The fossils were discovered at the South Walker Creek mine site in central Queensland by the Barada Barna people, according to the Queensland Museum, ...

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

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 ...