Scientists have identified an ancient marsupial for the first time, whose special adaptations allowed it to walk great distances across the continent now known as Australia some 3.5 million years ago.

The Diprotodon optatum, the largest marsupial that ever lived, is a migratory species, a discovery that might lead to significant changes in what we think about ancient and modern animal migration.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Dr Aaron Camens, Flinders University: Hi, I'm Aaron Camens, I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist, which ...

While the Diprotodon -- the extinct megafauna species that is distantly related to wombats but was the size of a small car -- is commonly (but incorrectly) thought of as Australia's 'giant wombat', ...

If you traveled back in time 46,000 years to the Pleistocene epoch in Australia, you would witness a landscape of bizarre creatures. There were giant kangaroos, flightless terror-birds, 23-foot-long ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Now more finds from the west of an ancient eagle or giant malleefowl, and a marsupial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting of the now-extinct marsupial Diprotodon. . We see a painting of a four-legged gray animal with buck teeth and a big ...

This ancient marsupial was a gigantic beast that roamed across Eastern Australia. When you think of large migrating land animals you probably think of zebras or other large mammals zooming through the ...

It did not eat flesh, but whatever got in its way would have been trampled to death, scientists agreed today after the first complete skeleton of a prehistoric monster was found in Australia. Known as ...

A meat producer and two palaeontologists are fighting to hold onto the remains of an ancient creature the size of a Nissan X-Trail found on the Western Downs, saying losing the history would be a huge ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Central Queensland. Followed categories will be added to My News. Blackwater's Jonathon Young was "blown away" when he unearthed what appeared to be the bottom ...