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Diprotodon optatum

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I should have made it shaggier!  Anyways I'll try for an updated version soon.  Diprotodon was the largest known marsupial, about the size of a modern rhino - 3 m in length and 1.8 m at the shoulder.  It became extinct quite recently, perhaps as a result of humans entering Australia.  It was a relative of modern wombats. 
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I always wondered if is possible that marsupials lack of hair... Diprotodon was very large and lived in a hot climate, but marsupials also have a slow metabolism... deffintively, an animal as large as intriguing. :)