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  1. Diprotodon (Deluxe by CollectA)
    Written by Suspsy

    5 (1 votes)

    The very first Australian prehistoric mammal to be named and described (by Sir Richard Owen back in 1838), Diprotodon is by far the biggest marsupial that we know of. A mature male would have been over 4 metres long, 1.8 metres tall at the shoulders, and weighed at least 2800 kg, which is heavier than a male hippopotamus […]

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  2. 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’
    #Paleontology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2022/12/pal12122201