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The Diprotodon Fossil Bones
Australia's Giant Prehistoric Wombat
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The largest marsupial to walk the earth, some of their bones are in the Burra Railway Station.
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The fossilised bones were found not far from here in the hills
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Roughly 1.8 metres tall and up to 13.7 metres long
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Had a pouch like a kangaroo
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Vegetarian, ate grasses, leaves and shrubs and sometimes dug for food.
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Lived about 45,000 years ago when the first Aboriginal people were living in Australia.
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First Nation people have stories about the giant "Kudimukras" who walked the land with them
Display from the Queensland Museum of a Diprotodon
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