Meet a giant ancestor of wombats
Fossils from a giant marsupial that roamed central Australia during the late Oligocene, 25 million years ago, reveal a new relative of the wombat.
Scientists have named it Mukupirna, meaning “big bones” in the local Dieri and Malyangapa Aboriginal languages, and created a new family for it called the Mukupirnidea, as reported in the journal Scientific Reports.
Published by Cosmos.
