Up to 9 feet (3 meters) long and 70 inches (180 centimeters) tall, some of the marsupials weighed as much as a pickup truck and stood as tall as a person. Others were much smaller, about the weight of a compact car.

The news this week is that the huge difference in size is just gender-related, and that these wombats are of the same species.

This is just a reminder – 10-12,000 years ago the world was full of mega-fauna, and they all died out rapidly, in two areas – Asia/Australia and the Americas. Species in Africa survived. In a pole shift scenario there will be a fulcrum point where disturbances are relatively low, and 90 degrees away there will be chaos. Find a globe and use Angola and Hawaii as the fulcrum points, then spin the globe slowly. You’ll see the fastest movement is in Asia/Australia and the Americas, where mega-fauna went extinct.