The team, which is led by Mike Archer and Sue Hand at the University of New South Wales, will return to Riversleigh in July in the hope of finding more remains of malleodectids, as well as other fossil animals known from the site.
Date: May 27, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Car-Sized Giant Wombat Skeleton Discovered in Australia [PHOTOS]
"It will be very interesting to see its age and if people came in first, for instance, from the north. There could be some very interesting data to be extracted from this find," said Sue Hand, a professor who participated in the discovery.
"It was the biggest of them all," University of New South Wales paleontologist Sue Hand, who was part of the team that unearthed the wombat, told Australian Geographic. "The biggest marsupial that ever lived on any continent."