Image: Reconstruction of the giant wombat, Phascolonus gigas. Credit, Andrey Atuchin, Rochelle Lawrence & Scott Hocknull © 2020 Queensland Museum.
Phascolonus is the giant wombat weighing 100-250 kg. Learn more about Phascolonus:
- Lived 4 million – 40,000 years ago
- 2-3 times the size of modern wombats
- Massive body, walked on all four feet
- May have made enormous burrows
- Grass eater
- All species had continuously growing teeth
- Found throughout Australia
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