Adam Yates, a palaeontologist from the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, was quick to point out that although the diprotodon was technically not a wombat, wombats were their closest living relatives.

Skeletons belonging to a gigantic, three-tonne relative of Australia's modern-day wombats have been unearthed by scientists in Western Australia's north, shedding light on the state's rich natural ...