Image: Reconstruction of the giant wombat-like marsupial, Diprotodon optatum. Credit, Vlad Konstantinov, Andrey Atuchin & Scott Hocknull © 2013 Queensland Museum.
Diprotodon is the world’s largest marsupial weighing up to 2.5 tonnes. Learn more about Diprotodon:
- Lived 1 million- 40,000 years ago
- Related to wombats and koalas
- Walked on four feet
- Had a pouch, probably backward facing
- Two huge tusks in lower jaw
- Plant eater
- Found across Australia
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