Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the ...

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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 ...

2. Before viewing the video in mathematics class, ask students to develop ratios to compare the Diprotodon's size to that of a wombat (e.g. how many wombats could fit in a Diprotodon).

Then came the even larger Diprotodon optatum, which also sported flat feet Nellie Pease/CABAH/CC 4.0 ...

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.

These giant marsupials of the genus Diprotodon lived in what is now Australia from about 1.6 million years ago up until about 25,000 to 50,000 years ago. They roamed the continent eating ...

Diprotodon were large four-footed marsupials, distantly related to wombats, but growing to the size of a rhinoceros. They lived in Australia from around 2.5 million to about 40,000 years ago.

Australia was once home to a giant prehistoric Ice Age marsupial related to wombats and koalas, and that followed an annual seasonal migration. The three-tonne beast, up to 1.8 metres tall and 3.5 ...

Diprotodon were large four-footed marsupials, distantly related to wombats, but growing to the size of a rhinoceros. They lived in Australia from around 2.5 million to about 40,000 years ago.

Known as a diprotodon and likened to a giant wombat, weighing three tons and stretching up to 14ft long, it roamed the Australian continent between 25,000 and two million years ago.

Diprotodon were large four-footed marsupials, distantly related to wombats, but growing to the size of a rhinoceros. They lived in Australia from around 2.5 million to about 40,000 years ago.