Big wombats

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New information on the immense wombat-like Diprotodon optatum indicates it reached more than two and a half tonnes on average - nearly double some previous estimates.

Imagine these digging burrows in your garden.

Image: BBC

Comments

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

hey batty,
thats not a http link,
its just the words masqing as
a hyper link

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

fixed

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

Great article, and great image, too. At first, I thought it was a real photograph and somewhat surprised I'd never heard of this monstrous beast that looks a bit like a rhino that's been de-horned.

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

I think they foudn the semipreserved
boody of one that was only a thousands
years old..

Like all out megafawna the Aborignals
wiped them out..
like a lot of the plants..
but hey, they are so intune with nature..
its not like they cusomised the country
to there needs..

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Good Ol' BBC. They do some amazing work bringing extinct animals to life.

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorite websites. I wish that BBC America's television division would show more than rerun after rerun of their most popular shows.

Down under down and dirty

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

That's blinking well batty! (no offense) Damn, but if it's bizzare, odds are it comes from Australia! Why? Bugger if I know!

Re: Down under down and dirty

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's that kind of place.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Maybe Digger needs to meet her Giant Cave Wombat cousin...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

That would be Very Cool Indeed. Diprotodons were too big to live in burrows but they had all the other Wombat features including, I suspect, a Resplendent Arse Technique.

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

I think that's an awesome idea :) So long as it doesn't have saber toothed cat fangs. Yes, I have more faith in you than that.

Unless you think you can pull it off. Then I'm all for it ;)

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Is the one in the picture nicnamed rhinoceros?

I swear it looks like a baby rhinoceros without a horn. And slightly fuzzy:D.