Meaning of diprotodon | Babel Free

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Any individual of the extinct marsupial genus Diprotodon, similar to a wombat in appearance but the size of a small elephant.

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“It is rather hard to understand⟳ how animals so largo and heavy as the diprotodons and gigantic kangaroos could have⟳ existed there when the country was in the same state in which it is now,[…].”

“No fewer than eighty diprotodons are represented by the bones already unearthed, […]”

“Soon we had a good view⟳ of the diprotodons, relatives of the present-day wombat but vastly larger.”

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