Science headline FAIL "Fossils of ancient 'super-koala' found"

[Viva_La_Revolution]

and the first line of the article..

"Australia's treetops were home 15 million years ago to sheep-sized, 150-pound relatives of modern day wombats that looked much like koalas, scientists say."



http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/05/03/Fossils-of-ancient-super-koala-found/UPI-86411336086449/#ixzz1u6iVwbiZ

[Scuba]

1. Simple. More people will look at koalas than wombats.

[SwissTony]

2. Wombats are regarded as the closest relative to koalas

Wombats are ground dwellers, koalas live mainly in trees. So, a tree-climbing wombat could well be....?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. that's like saying chimps and humans are the same

except chimps live in trees.

they had to dumb it down because most people don't know what a wombat is, but they've seen those cute koalas..

ergo, Science Fail