{"id":232,"date":"2008-08-20T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/08\/giant-wombat-news.html"},"modified":"2008-08-20T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T22:54:00","slug":"giant-wombat-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/08\/giant-wombat-news-232.html","title":{"rendered":"Giant Wombat News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The news<\/a> this week is that the huge difference in size is just gender-related, and that these wombats are of the same species.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.
\nThe news this week is that the huge difference in size is just gender-related, and that these wombats are of the same species.
\nThis 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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-megafauna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}