{"id":10450,"date":"2011-07-06T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/giant-wombat-skeleton-found-in-australias-queensland\/"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:39:11","slug":"giant-wombat-skeleton-found-in-australias-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/giant-wombat-skeleton-found-in-australias-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant wombat skeleton found in Australias Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p class=\"introduction\">Scientists in Australia have found the skeleton of a &#8220;giant wombat&#8221; which lived some two million years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The plant-eating marsupial would have been the size of a four-wheel drive car and weighed three tonnes, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Its bones were found on a farm in north-eastern Australia&#8217;s Queensland state. <\/p>\n<p>The find is one of Australia&#8217;s most significant pre-historic discoveries ever because the skeleton is complete, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time a complete skeleton of a Diprotodon optatum has been uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was widespread across Australia about 50,000 years ago, when it is believed the first indigenous people lived.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-14040349\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">      <a href=\"http:\/\/fraynelson.org\">Publicado via email<\/a> a partir de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraynelson.org\/giant-wombat-skeleton-found-in-australias-que\">Palabras de camino<\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Australia have found the skeleton of a &#8220;giant wombat&#8221; which lived some two million years ago. The plant-eating marsupial would have been the size of a four-wheel drive car and weighed three tonnes, experts say. Its bones were found on a farm in north-eastern Australia&#8217;s Queensland state. The find is one of Australia&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/giant-wombat-skeleton-found-in-australias-queensland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giant wombat skeleton found in Australias Queensland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}