It's #WombatDay! The Wombat was (briefly) first described in 1800 as "the largest of all the Opossums: size of a Badger: colour pale yellow: fur longish and sub erect: nose strongly divided by a furrow" https://t.co/V3zKSxJioo (#SciArt 1798: https://t.co/vvGBj7cosR) 🧪 📖 🌏
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Errata: the above illustration is from 1804 "An account of the English colony in New South Wales" https://t.co/2Y3CKfyG22. The 1800 link is for the original version from "A general history of quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood":
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