Especially for Wombat - What's a diprotodon?

[happylabs]

yes, that was wom alright.

lmao...

[wombat2u2004]

Enough jokes everyone !!!! I'm very sensitive about such things

Yeah, the Diprotodon was a huge Wombelina. Looks like Suzy has dug up a good complete one this time. Although Diprotodon fossils are not new, this is the first complete fossil that has been found.
Susan Hand is one of the gurus here in the field of fossils, quite a brilliant lady, I almost met her once at a dig, but missed her by a day.....she had to fly off to another find.
There are a few theories as to why they went extinct, which was shortly after humans arrived here 50,000 years ago. Some say they were hunted to extinction (just like the Dodo in Mauritius....the Dutch ate them all), and the Australian continent sort of dried up from the inside out after the last ice age, so their habitats would have been affected.
I believe it was a combination of both, climate change and hunting by the Aboriginals.

[smokey the elder]

I find the whole presence of megafauna in the recent past fascinating. It's like a whole mess of mammals got into an enormous trove of steroids!

[wombat2u2004]

I find the whole presence of megafauna in the recent past fascinating. It's like a whole mess of mammals got into an enormous trove of steroids!

Recent scientific studies have revealed that Godzilla and King Kong took steroids.

[happylabs]

Recent scientific studies have revealed that Godzilla and King Kong took steroids.

It must have been a BIG pill!