What's 30 years old, furry and 85 pounds? It's the world's largest and oldest known wombat who goes by the name of Patrick, who may or may not have been featured in your childhood nightmares, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials ...

The world’s largest herbivorous burrowing mammal is on borrowed time, with only 315 individuals estimated to remain in the wild. Now, scientists have enlisted the latest ground-penetrating radar (GPR) ...

Up to 50 skeletons of the diprotodon, the largest marsupial that ever lived, were found in a remote desert. Scientist Scott Hocknull described the creature as "a cross between a wombat and a bear but ...