Crikey, that's a big wombat

A wombat the size of a car has been discovered in Australia.

A wombat the size of a car has been discovered in Australia.

Scientists in the country have found nearly a complete skeleton of a two-million-year-old creature known as a diprotodon, which possessed big trunks and a tiny brain and was around the same size as a rhinoceros.

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