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Show LIVED MANY CENTURIES AGO 6keleton of Giant Wombat, Recently Found In Tasmania, Believed to Be 20,000 Ye&rt Old. A complete skeleton recently discovered discov-ered In the Mowbray marsh, on the far1 outskirts of the wild marshy regions of Northwest Tasmania confirms tie existence 20,000 or 30,000 years ago of a giant wombat (one of the pouched animals peculiar to the Antipodes). The discovery was made by Mr. Lovett, a farmer, who was digging a drain into the swamp. The skeleton lay burled In six feet of decayed vegetable matter resting on sand that was once the bed of a lake, Mr. Scott of the Launceston museum, examined and excavated the skeleton and expressed the opinion that the animal had lived perhaps more than 20,000 years ago, says the London Dally Mall. It is the only specimen yet discovered. In life the animal would be bigger than a mule, with four elephantine legs and a head ve7 much like a bulldog. Experts bellevs It to be a smaller species of a gigantic marsupial approaching in size the Brontosaurus (which weighed 80 to 90 tons). It has long, bearlike tusks, and I probably lived on herbs and was slow or movement. The present-day wombat Is a harrowing har-rowing animal from two to three feet long, with a short, thick body, snort less nnd verv little tail. |