A DIPROTODON.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12015, 16 August 1907, Page 4

A DIPROTODON.

There has just been set iip inthe place of honor in the hall df the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, the latest rival in the beauty of ugliness to the Toxodon Plateusis and theDinoceras Miabile. It is a skeleton of a Diprotodon, which, in the Period, used to skip about the plains; ; of Australia. It was a pouched animal, and in general shape resembled-tbe existing wallaby, bufc its huge bulk rivalled that of the rhinoceros. Professor Ray L&nkester sayA-tfrat the animal only dated back a,* trifling Span of IQfyOOG years or so, the period immediately, anterior to thd pfe^rit race of beasts. " ■ .- Apparently the Diprotodon haa several eyes, all of terrifying size, and its teeth were placed on massive jaws. From the end of its jaw to the tip of its tail the skeleton measures something like twenty feet.