Crikey, that's a big wombat

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.

Professor Sue Hand, a palaeontologist at the University of New South Wales, described the find as a "really good specimen".

She told Australian Geographic: "It was a bit like a wombat but looked more like a massive, rhino-type beast ... We've found the skull and jaws, as well most of the rest of the skeleton. It's a really good specimen.

"It was the biggest of them all – the biggest marsupial that ever lived on any continent."