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The Pleistocene Epoch (1.6 million-10,000 years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-pleistocene-epoch/The Pleistocene was the time of the giants, when megafauna roamed the landscape. Australia was close to its current position, but sea levels were much lower. Humans may have first arrived in Australia during this time.
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Australia over time
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/Learn about our evolving landscape, Australian megafauna and other extinct animals and how we use fossils to relate the animals of the past with those of today.
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Thylacoleo carnifex
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/thylacoleo-carnifex/Thylacoleo carnifex, the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known, may have hunted other Pleistocene megafauna like the giant Diprotodon. Thylacoleo was one of the first fossil mammals described from Australia, discovered not long after European settlement.
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Australia through time learning journey
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning-journeys/australia-through-time/Follow this learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of evolution and Australia through time.
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The evolution of the platypus
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/classroom-activities/platypus-evolution/Learn about the different platypus fossils that have been discovered in Australia and South America and compare their features.
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Dinosaurs - Platypterygius longmani
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/platypterygius-australis/Platypterygius longmani was an ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine reptile that roamed the Eromanga Sea of inland Australia during the Early Cretaceous.
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Dinosaur - Minmi paravertebra
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/minmi-paravertebra/Minmi paravertebra was an ankylosaur, a quadrupedal dinosaur covered in bony armour. It was discovered in 1964 near Minmi Crossing, Queensland, and was the first ankylosaur known from the Southern Hemisphere.
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Dinosaurs - Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/muttaburrasaurus-langdoni/Muttaburrasaurus was a large, plant-eating ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Australia.
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Dinosaurs - Kambara implexidens
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/kambara-implexidens/Kambara implexidens, from the early Eocene of Queensland, was a mekosuchine, an ancient group of primitive Gondwanan crocodiles.
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Chunia illuminata
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/chunia-illuminata/Chunia was a primitive ektopodontid, a distinctive group of Cainozoic Australian possums that may have been specialized seed-eaters. Ektopodontids, first thought to be monotremes, had short faces, large, forward-facing eyes and the most unusual and complex teeth of any marsupial.
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