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Zygomaturus trilobus

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Zygomaturus was another prehistoric giant wombat-relative.  It was somewhat smaller than Diprotodon, reaching 1.5 m/5' at the shoulder and 2.5 m/ 8.2' in length.  It had a very strange squashed-up snout!  Now I wonder if it, too, was hairy like a modern wombat?  It appears to have lived in moist regions, many of its remains being known from swamps.  Would a swamp-dwelling thing have smooth or hairy skin?  I'm wondering if indeed it lived mainly in such places or if it wasn't a case of it being best preserved there.  Anyways, here you see Zygomaturus a bit further inland, as it might have stretched well inland along rivers.  It is digging here in moist soil.  Again I wonder just how well it dug.  Would a creature as big as it still be living in burrows like the surviving wombats?  Maybe it dug for plant roots and bulbs.  I'm also wondering if it mightn't have enjoyed wallowing in mud, and it might have dug itself a nice deep mud wallow along a riverbank.  Anyways, this old thing went extinct about 45 000 years ago, so we just missed it.  What a pity!  Charcoal drawing, coloured with Photoshop.
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Actually, in all likelihood humans did NOT miss this animal.