Giant wombat skull hints at distinct lifestyle

A fossilised skull found in a cave in Australia is the 80,000-year-old remains of a giant wombat (Ramsayia magna). A study of the most complete giant wombat skull ever found has revealed that the creature probably had a sizeable, fleshy nose and strong muscles for chewing tougher foods, and they did not live in burrows like modern wombats do. The sheep-sized animal probably weighed about 130 kilograms. Scientists still don’t know when or how the giant wombat went extinct.