DISCOVERY OF FOSSILS
Giant Wombats, Wallabies (Special Crepdt. N.Z.P. A.) SYDNEY, June 1. Fossilised remains of giant wombats as big as bulls, kangaroos nine feet high, and wallabies bigger than any known kangaroo, have been found by an expedition to Lake Tandau, about 80 miles east of Broken Hill in New South Wales. Mr D. Merilee, curator of fossils at the Western Australia Museum, who led the expedition, said the remains were from the late Pleistocene age, about 10,000 years ago, which meant that Aborigines would have lived with and killed the big animals. Native stone tools found in the area indicated that aborigines had lived around Lake Tandau for several thousand years. Bones from 13 species of animals long extinct in Australia had been found, including some not yet been identified.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31385, 2 June 1967, Page 9
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