Here’s one: what weighs 2,800 kilograms, looks like a wombat and has become integral in unlocking Australia’s prehistoric past?

If you said “Diprotodon”, consider yourself on the cutting edge of modern paleontology.

Paleontologist and WA Museum Curator of Mammalogy Kenny Travouillon told Gary Adshead on 6PR Mornings said the recently-discovered fossils have unveiled a deep history of megafauna on the continent as late as 30,000 years ago.

“We’ve discovered there is at least ten individual skeletons in the area: it’s been amazing to hold something that old in your hands,” Dr Travouillon said.

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