An animal rescuer is recovering after she was mauled by a 42kg wombat that ‘ripped off’ a chunk of her hand. Beth Nasser encountered the marsupial named ‘Bambam’ at her Wombat Stomp wildlife sanctuary in the NSW southern tablelands earlier this month. Without warning the normally cute and cuddly creature lashed out. ‘(The wombat) just […]
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Wombats the Size of Cars? Be Glad You Didn’t Live Back Then!
Taking a stroll down Mother Nature’s Memory Lane can be fascinating, but it’s also a reminder that humans today couldn’t cope with the everyday perils that lay in wait tens of thousands of years ago. Sharks the size of school buses, avians the size of Sesame Street’s Big Bird, lions that would all but dwarf […]