Over 100 million years ago, Australia's dinosaurs shared links with South America's due to the continents' connection through ...

The ear holes and the eyes that close as the animal dives are housed in the grooves behind its ... In addition to the platypus, the four existing species of echidna are the only living mammals that ...

Two shinbones provide the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ("shark-toothed lizards") in Australia. A third shinbone ...

Dwelling in the lush wilderness of Australia, Koalas are often seen clinging to trees. They are threatened by forest fires and land clearing in recent times. A semi-aquatic mammal, the platypus calls ...

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The Echidna comprise four of the five living species in a group of egg-laying mammals known as monotremes. Echidnas are nocturnal animals and spend their days resting in burrows ... The bluetongue ...

We still find traces of these animals in ... of platypus and echidna. Large predatory dinosaurs – on the scale of Tyrannosaurus – are notably absent from the Australian fossil record.