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Julien Louys, Deputy Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University

For the first time ever, we have a complete skull description of a true fossil giant wombat

Ramsayia reconstruction (r) next to a modern wombat. Eleanor Pease, CC BY-NC

The place we call Australia today was in many ways vastly different 80,000 years ago.

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the animals that would have roamed the plains and inhabited the forests of the continent. Huge marsupials ruled the land, including giant kangaroos, giant koalas and giant wombats.

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