The pygmy wombat was a cryptid reported from New South Wales, Australia. Morris Fowler of Byrill Creek Road Uki told Gary Opit in June 1997 that he and his wife had regularly seen a pygmy wombat crossing their land for twenty years, which Fowler described as fifteen centimetres (6'') tall, with pale yellow-grey woolly fur, a wombat's head, short legs on a rotund body, and a stumpy tail. They only ever saw one individual, always ambling in the same direction across their access road and paddock. The Fowlers were Scottish immigrants, familiar with bandicoots, echidnas, possums, koalas, and wallabies, and did not realise the animal was something unusual.[1]
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- ↑ Opit, Gary "Citizen Science and Cryptozoology: Data Received From Listeners During 18 Years of Wildlife Talkback on ABC North Coast New South Wales Local Radio," Australian Zoologist Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017)