Fossils of 'big boned' marsupial shed light on wombat evolution
by Nicola Davis and Naaman Zhou from Science | The Guardian on (#5512S)
Mukupirna, discovered in the Lake Eyre basin in 1973, was probably five times the size of living wombats
Fossils of a huge, hairy creature with shovel-shaped hands and unusual teeth could hold clues to the evolution of today's wombats, researchers say.
They say the fossils belong to a new member of a group of marsupials called vombatiforms, and one of the earliest such creatures yet discovered.
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