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Fossils of 'big boned' marsupial shed light on wombat evolution
June 26, 2020
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.
“Vombatiforms is this really interesting group; the only living members are the koala and the [three living species of] wombats,” said Dr Robin Beck, the first author of the study, from the University of Salford in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...tion-mukupirna
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