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

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 ...

Remains of the extinct Diprotodon are commonly believed to be Australia’s “giant wombat,” but it isn’t the closest wombat relative since it belongs to the family Diprotodonidae and not ...

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 word "diprotodon" means "two forward-facing teeth.") But the prehistoric behemoth dwarfed its modern counterparts. On all fours, it stood six feet tall and could weigh 6,000 pounds.

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 ...

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.

Diprotodon, a relative of the modern wombat, was the largest marsupial that ever lived and had a pouch that was large enough to carry an adult human.

Diprotodon, a relative of the modern wombat, was the largest marsupial that ever lived and had a pouch that was large enough to carry an adult human.

The largest marsupial to have ever lived, Australia's giant Diprotodon, may have been a migratory species, an analysis of a 300,000-year-old fossil tooth suggests.