The largest marsupial to have ever lived, Australia's giant wombat-like Diprotodon, may have been a migratory species, an analysis of a fossil tooth suggests. Diprotodons are giant wombat-like ...

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The Diprotodon optatum, the largest marsupial that ever lived, is a migratory species, a discovery that might lead to significant changes in what we think about ancient and modern animal migration.

While the Diprotodon -- the extinct megafauna species that is distantly related to wombats but was the size of a small car -- is commonly (but incorrectly) thought of as Australia's 'giant wombat', ...

Diprotodon was the largest marsupial ever to live. New evidence shows it migrated annually – and could make us reassess what we know of other extinct marsupials Perhaps nowhere is the debate regarding ...

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And just in time too - despite it being hidden in earth for millions of years, the fossil - exposed by the excavation - was under threat from the Territory's notorious Wet Season storms and floods.

A meat producer and two palaeontologists are fighting to hold onto the remains of an ancient creature the size of a Nissan X-Trail found on the Western Downs, saying losing the history would be a huge ...