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Show '; LIVED MANY CENTURIES AGO ; Jkeleton of Giant Wombat, Recently Found In Tatmanla, Delleved to Bo 20.000 Years Old. r A complete skeleton recently dlscov-ered dlscov-ered In the Mowbray marsh, en the fnr outskirts of tho wild marshy regions , of Northwest Tasmania confirms the t existence 20,000 or 30.000 years ago of . n giant wombat (e of tho pouched i "nllm,,181 Peculiar to the Antipodes). . iho discovery wns mndo by Mr . Lovett. n farmer, who was digging n , drain Into tho swamp. Tho skeleton lay' burled In six feet of decayed vegetablo matter resting on sand that was onco tho bed of n lata Mr. Scott of .tho Launceston museum, exnmlned and excavated tho skeleton Z LmTT h1 V10 P""n.that the rinhnnl hnd lived perhaps more than nf'.',rnK0' Bays u, Lo"'ln ?,,n' " t only specimen . would ho bigger than a mule, with . four eeplmntlno logs and ndicnd very much llko a bulldog, nxporta believe i It to bo a smaller species of.n gigantic . mnrsuplnl nppronclfing In' size the , Urontosanrus (which weighed 80 to IV) " .?? . . .!mB l0nB' benrllUo ,usks- nnd i Probably lived ot, herbs nng was sloW of movement. ' The present-day wombat Is a burrowing bur-rowing animal from two to three feet ong. with n short, thick body, short legs nnd very llttlo tnll. ' |