Sentences with phrase «giant wombats»

(My second favourite dinosaurs are the giant wombats that once wandered Australia.

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

Amateur archaeologists will love the fascinating two hour Landscapes of Change interpretive walking trail, past deep gorges and permanent waterholes, and learning what the landscape was like when megafauna walked the earth, including the giant wombat.

Not exact matches

Within 2000 years of the Aborigines» arrival, most mammals weighing more than 50 kilograms were gone, including Diprotodon (a giant, browsing relative of the wombat); Protemnodon (a giant wallaby), and Sthenurus (a short - faced kangaroo).

by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated Tom Lichtenheld (Chronicle) John Brown by John Hendrix (Abrams) One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Mike Wimmer (Philomel) Pouch by David Ezra Stein (Putnam) Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas (Beach Lane / Atheneum) Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice by Judith Byron Schachner (Dutton) The Lion & The Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown) Trouble Gum by Matthew Cordell (Feiwel & Friends) Willoughby & The Lion by Greg Foley (HarperCollins) Wombat Walkabout by Carol Diggory Shields, illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Dutton)