Sea Monsters

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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