| − | Wombats are marsupials, and are short legged quadrepeds. Secular evolution ohlds them to have evolved from Diprotodontians about 55-65 million years ago. | + | Wombats are marsupials, and are short legged quadrepeds. |
| | + | According to creation science theories, after the Flood, Wombats may have joined the [[kangaroo]]s that bred from the Ark passengers and then migrated to Australia. 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 connected to Europe by a land bridge similar to the one that connected Asia to America<ref>[http://biblicalstudies.qldwide.net.au/cs-kangaroos_dinosaurs_and_eden.html "Kangaroos, Dinosaurs, and Eden"], Ken Ham.</ref> -- or if they [[rafting (ecology) | rafted]] on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.<ref name="ca1"/> |