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One of the distinctive features of wombats is that their pouch opens towards the rear of the animal, unlike most other marsupials. This avoids the problem of the pouch filling with dirt whilst the animal is burrowing.
One of the distinctive features of wombats is that their pouch opens towards the rear of the animal, unlike most other marsupials. This avoids the problem of the pouch filling with dirt whilst the animal is burrowing.
==Creationist Origins Hypothesis==
After the Flood, representatives of the separately created wombat [[baraminology | archaebaramin]] were among those animals that migrated from the [[Middle East]] to [[Australia]] as part of the [[Post-Diluvian Diasporas]]. There is debate whether this migration happened over land<ref name="ca1">[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c006.html "How did animals get from the Ark to isolated places, such as Australia?"], ChristianAnswers.net.</ref> -- as Australia was still for a time almost connected to Europe by land bridges similar to the one that connected Asia to America<ref>Batten, Don, et. al., 207, ''The Creation Answers Book'', [http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter17.pdf Chapter 17]</ref> -- or if they [[rafting (ecology) | rafted]] on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.<ref name="ca1"/>
Creation researchers suggest that the wombat-specific design of its rear-opening pouch provides strong evidence for the wombat's special creation and against the evolutionists' Diprotodontian theory of wombat/kangaroo common ancestry<ref>[http://www.icr.org/article/677/ "Watches and Wombats"], by Ken Ham, Institute for Creation Research</ref>.