Show LIVED MANY CENTURIES AGO skeleton of giant wombat recently found in tasmania Be lived to DO be yere years old A complete skeleton recently discovered in the mowbray marsh on the far outskirts of the wild marshy regions of northwest tasmania confirms the existence or years ago of it a giant wombat one of the pouched ani malsi peculiar to the antipodes T tho h 0 d discovery I 1 ry wa was s made by mr lovett a farmer who was digging a drain into the swamp the skeleton lay buried in six feet of decayed vegetable matter resting on sand that was once the bed of a lake sir mr scott of tho the museum examined and excavated the skeleton and expressed the opinion that the animal had lived perhaps more than years ago says the london dally daily mall mail it Is the only specimen yet discovered in life the animal would be bigger than a mule with four elephantine legs and a head very much like a bulldog experts relieve believe it to be a smaller species of a gigantic marsupial approaching in size the brontosaurus which weighed SO 80 to 90 tons it has long tusks and probably lived on herbs and was slow of movement the present day wombat Is a burrowing animal from two to three feet long with a short thick body short apsa and verv little tall tail |