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	Bunyip Stamps
		Diprotodon was the largest marsupial ever to have existed.
		Diprotodon is believed to have become extinct between fifteen and twenty thousand years ago.
		Memories of encounters between the aborigines and diprotodon might have been passed down through the centuries.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptost/bunyip.htm (330 words)

	Diprotodon: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Diprotodons were the largest marsupials that ever lived.
		The closest surviving relatives are the wombats and the Koala.
		It is fancifully suggested that Diprotodons may have been the inspiration for the legends of the bunyip.
	www.encyclopedian.com /di/Diprotodon.html (558 words)

	Diprotodon - Definition, explanation
		Diprotodon fossils have been found in many places across Australia, including complete skulls and skeletons, as well as hair and foot impressions.
		The closest surviving relatives are the wombats and the Koala.
		It is fancifully suggested that diprotodons may have been the inspiration for the legends of the bunyip.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/di/diprotodon.php (0 words)

	InfoHub - View Single Post - Diprotodon - A Marsupial of the Pleistocene
		Diprotodon was a member of a family called Diprontidae.
		Diprotodon was an herbivore and inhabited forests and open woodlands.
		Diprotodon was the largest known marsupial to ever existed.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showpost.php?p=14917&postcount=1 (0 words)

	Bunyips
		Scientists believe that the bunyip was really an ancient animal called the diprotodon which looked like a wombat but it grew to the size of a rhinoceros and weighed about 2 tonnes (about 2 cars).
		It was a plant-eater and because it was a marsupial, carried its young in a pouch.
		The first diprotodon bones were found in 1839 but it was not until 1893 that large numbers of bones were discovered in muddy areas and in places where lakes used to be.
	www.australianhistory.org /bunyips.php (115 words)

	ABC Science - Australian Beasts - Fact files - Diprotodon
		Diprotodon's closest living relatives are the wombats and Koala.
		Diprotodon was still living when the first people lived in Australia.
		Diprotodon bones have been found with butchering marks.
	www.abc.net.au /science/ausbeasts/factfiles/diprotodon.htm (146 words)

	Extinct Animals - Diprotodon australis
		Diprotodon australis was the largest marsupial to ever live.
		Its name ‘Diprotodon’ literally means “two forward teeth”, referring to the paired tusk-like incisors which it may have used to root out small shrubs and bite through tough vegetation.
		A large Diprotodon weighed 1.5 - 2.5 tonnes, and in spite of its bulk could move almost as fast as a camel on its relatively long legs and wombat-like feet.
	www.parks.sa.gov.au /naracoorte/wonambi/animals/extinct/005751 (178 words)

	Prehistoric Life - Ice Age Animals in Australia - The Diprotodontids. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diprotodon optatum, which evolved about a million years ago and may have become extinct as recently as 15,000 years ago, has the distinction of being the largest marsupial ever.
		Diprotodon optatum was quite widespread throughout inland Australia prior to the last glacial peak about 18,000 years ago.
		Diprotodon and other animals are plentiful in the dry inland lakes of South Australia, and may be evidence that the last of the Diprotodons retreated into the lakes as they dried up.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /prehistoric/mammals/diprotodontids.html (388 words)

	Flinders University: News, events and notices - New clues to the killer of the rhino-sized marsupials (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diprotodons were widespread in Australia during the Pleistocene period (roughly the last two million years) and their remains have been found in locations from Queensland to Kangaroo Island.
		Diprotodons were herbivorous and are thought to have been browsers of the semi-arid and arid scrublands.
		Associate Professor Wells said it seems likely that diprotodon lived in small herds, and one aspect of current research is exploring the wide variation in size of diprotodon skeletons in an attempt to establish the existence of either sexual dimorphism (smaller females and larger, territorial males) or, alternatively, the presence of more than one species.
	www.flinders.edu.au /news/articles/?fj12v12s03 (686 words)

	Diprotodon Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diprotodon fossils have been found in many places across Australia, including complete skulls and skeletons, as well as hair and foot impressions.
		The closest surviving relatives are the wombats and the Koala.
		It is fancifully suggested that diprotodons may have been the inspiration for the legends of the bunyip.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/d/di/diprotodon.html (545 words)

	Diprotodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diprotodon was one of the largest marsupials that ever lived.
		Finally, critics point out that even during climatic extremes some parts of the continent always remain relatively exempt: the tropical north, for example, stays fairly warm and wet in all climatic circumstances; alpine valleys are less affected by drought, and so on.
		Critics of this theory regard it as simplistic, argue that (unlike New Zealand and America) there is little direct evidence of hunting, and that the dates on which the theory rests are too uncertain to be relied on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diprotodon (600 words)

	largest marsupial and 10 foot wingspan eagle - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Diprotodon was the largest marsupial, the heaviest weighing some 2 to 2.5 metric tons.
		Diprotodon and the wombats have common ancestors, but they are not very closely related.
		Diprotodon was a browsing animal, and the sort of vegetation it fed on is very scarce in Australia today.
	community.discovery.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/49510616/m/17510088 (292 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Diprotodon
		Several species of Diprotodon have been named based on the size of the skull (Diprotodon australis, Diprotodon minor), but these are probably all males and females of one species (Diprotodon optatum).
		Diprotodons were the biggest marsupial that ever lived, weighing up to 2500kg (slightly heavier than a white rhinoceros).
		Diprotodon fossils and reconstructions are on display at: the South Australia Museum, Adelaide; the Riversleigh Fossils Interpretive Centre, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia; and the Wonambi Fossil Centre, Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3040.shtml (0 words)

	Ice Age Marsupial Topped Three Tons, Scientists Say (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The beast, known as Diprotodon optatum, may have been larger than all but the biggest hippopotamus or rhinoceros, according to the first rigorous experimental estimate of its bulk by scientists in Sydney, Australia.
		Diprotodon has been known in the fossil record to scientists since the 1830s.
		Diprotodon led a "life of incredible boredom, punctuated by the odd moment of panic when a whopping great marsupial lion crept up on it," Wroe said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1004967/posts (1222 words)

	Wellington Caves Special Feature
		For the aborigines the diprotodon would have been an easy target since it would have not adequately responded to attack from sophisticated weapons such as spears and clubs and herding tactics.
		There is only meagre evidence that the aborigines hunted diprotodons, such as an alleged arrow head like stone found in a diprotodon bone, and sites where bones are layed out as if in the butchering position.
		Diprotodon bones found during the excavation of the phosphate mine were immediately packed in cases and sent overseas.
	www.ee.usyd.edu.au /suss/Bulls/35(3)/wellington.html (9906 words)

	Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Diprotodon
		Diprotodon's closest living relatives are the wombats and Koala.
		More than once, a female Diprotodon skeleton has been found with a baby lying where it died while still in its mother's pouch.
		Diprotodon bones have been found with butchering marks.
	www.lostkingdoms.com /facts/factsheet48.htm (0 words)

	Climate Change Caused Extinction of Australia's Giant Animals
		The largest marsupial ever discovered, Diprotodon optatum, evolved about a million years ago and may have become extinct as recently as 15,000 years ago.
		Diprotodon optatum was quite widespread throughout inland Australia prior to the last glacial peak about 18,000 years ago.
		Fossils of Diprotodon and other animals are plentiful in the dry inland lakes of South Australia, and may be evidence that the last of the Diprotodons retreated into the lakes as they dried up.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jun2005/2005-06-01-02.asp (0 words)

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		Diprotodon hade kraftiga framtänder som kunde bita genom hård bark och sega växter.
		Det verkar som om Diprotodon levde kvar tills de första människorna dök upp.
		Idag är Diprotodons närmaste släktingar koalan och wombaten.
	www.commersen.se /djurtid/arter/tidiga/pungdjur/diprotodon.html (141 words)

	Regional Council of Goyder - Diprotodons
		Subsequent prospecting further downstream revealed many small outcrops of weathered bone and fragments of the distinctive Diprotodon tooth enamel leading ultimately to the discovery of articulated skeletal remains of Diprotodon and a Tasmanian tiger.
		Diprotodons were flat-footed and walked like a wombat. Their gait has been determined from fossil trackways at Lake Callabonna and these trackways suggest an animal that could move at about 5 km/hr and range around 15 to 20 kms in a day.
		Pollens extracted from the gut cavities of Diprotodons that mired in the soft muds of Lake Callabonna suggest a diet of woody shrubs similar to the vegetation still found in semi-arid and arid regions today.
	www.goyder.sa.gov.au /site/page.cfm?u=301 (0 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		A Diprotodon skeleton, an ancient marsupial that resembles the bunyip
		Diprotodons were large rhino sized plant eating marsupials, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
		Officially there is only one known species of diprotodon (Diprotodon australis) and it is unclear if it was a somewhat aquatic animal.
	www.cryptozoology.com /cryptids/bunyip.php (0 words)

	ABC Science - Australian Beasts - Fact files - Diprotodon
		The hippopotomus-sized Diprotodon was the largest marsupial that ever lived.
		Fossils of Diprotodon have been found in many places across Australia.
		Diprotodon was still living when the first people lived in Australia.
	abc.net.au /science/ausbeasts/factfiles/diprotodon.htm (0 words)

	Ooparts & Ancient High Technology--Evidence of Noah's Flood?-Mega Fauna- There Were Giants In Those Days
		Late last century, the South Australian Museum obtained a large amount of fossil material related to Diprotodon from Lake Callabonna in the north of the state.
		Apart from Diprotodon, there are perhaps half a dozen other species which are often cited as being representative of the Australian Megafauna.
		The Zygomaturus trilobus was a bullock-sized relative of Diprotodon which may have had either rhinoceros-like horns or a short trunk.
	www.s8int.com /mega1.html (2059 words)

	Frozen out? - National - theage.com.au
		A combined Melbourne-La Trobe university team has found strong evidence that cold, arid climates during the last Ice Age had already wiped out the megafauna before humans arrived — in one place, at least.
		Giant marsupials such as a 3.5-metre kangaroo, a hippopotamus-sized wombat-like diprotodon, huge "killer possums" (also known as marsupial lions, or thylacoleo), and giant emu-like birds, genyornis, roamed Australia until about 50,000 years ago.
		Most of them were slow-moving animals, and their extinction at what was thought to be about the same time as the first wave of Aborigines appeared in Australia has caused conjecture that early hunters were responsible.
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/frozen-out/2006/08/12/1154803145306.html (0 words)

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	★ Common Wombat Photograph - Vombatus Ursinus, NSW Australia
		The ancestors of the wombat evolved sometime between 55 and 26 million years ago (no useful fossil record has yet been found for this period) and about 12 species flourished until well into the ice ages.
		The Diprotodon, or giant wombat, was the largest marsupial to ever live and coexisted with the earliest human inhabitants of Australia.
		Wombats have an extraordinarily slow metabolism, taking around 14 days to complete digestion, and do not move quickly often.
	www.australian1.com /Australian_Photos/Featherdale_Wildlife_Park/Common_Wombat.html (466 words)

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