Sex Differences To Ancient Giant Wombat Were Huge

Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately one metre (39 inches) in length with a very short tail. They are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. The name wombat comes from the Eora Aboriginal community who were the original human inhabitants of the Sydney area.

They may have been vegetarians, but the ancient wombats that roamed Australia were a frightening lot.

Up to 9 feet (3 meters) long and 70 inches (180 centimeters) tall, some of the marsupials weighed as much as a pickup truck and stood as tall as a person. Others were much smaller, about the weight of a compact car.

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1780 British Warship Found

In early June at New York, the prow of the 1780 British warship H.M.S. Ontario is shown 500 feet (150 meters) below Lake Ontario near Rochester were discovered.

Called a "holy grail" of Great Lakes wreck hunters, the 80-foot (24-meter) brig-sloop sank in a sudden gale during the U.S. Revolutionary War on October 31, 1780.

That is nature...when time money is used to search for something that was lost.

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Three Super Earths Located

NASA image shows an artist's impression of a new planet called 2003UB313. The planet discovery was made in 2005 using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California. European astronomers say they have located dozens of giant planets in three distant solar systems.

Three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star and two other solar systems with small planets are discovered by the European researchers. They said their findings, presented at a conference in France, suggest that Earth-like planets may be very common.

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