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Here's the proper shaggy version! I first thought Diprotodon, being as big as it was, would be hairless or nearly so like a rhino - since it also lived in a tropical and subtropical climate - but actually, they found traces of its hair along with its footprints, so it must have been pretty shaggy like modern wombats! So here it is! Diprotodon as I said previously was the largest known marsupial, up to (or over) 3 m in length and 1.8 m at the shoulder, with a huge skull. It had two prominent, long front teeth in each jaw, and I think the upper teeth might very well have protruded like this. I am not sure if it was a good digger like modern wombats ... it didn't have such proportionally long claws on its feet. I would love it if we could learn more of this fascinating species ... we only just missed it, it went extinct within the last few thousand years or so. There's rock art that possibly depicts it, and some folks say it might have inspired legends of the Australian Bunyip.

Description
Here's the proper shaggy version! I first thought Diprotodon, being as big as it was, would be hairless or nearly so like a rhino - since it also lived in a tropical and subtropical climate - but actually, they found traces of its hair along with its footprints, so it must have been pretty shaggy like modern wombats! So here it is! Diprotodon as I said previously was the largest known marsupial, up to (or over) 3 m in length and 1.8 m at the shoulder, with a huge skull. It had two prominent, long front teeth in each jaw, and I think the upper teeth might very well have protruded like this. I am not sure if it was a good digger like modern wombats ... it didn't have such proportionally long claws on its feet. I would love it if we could learn more of this fascinating species ... we only just missed it, it went extinct within the last few thousand years or so. There's rock art that possibly depicts it, and some folks say it might have inspired legends of the Australian Bunyip.