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Debunking the myth that Aboriginal stories are just myths: the Yamuti and the megafauna Diprotodon
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/yamuti/As a young Adnyamathanha kid, I was told the story about the Yamuti. The Yamuti was a very large and scary animal that specifically looked to steal little kids.
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Meet Darren the Diprotodon!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/meet-darren-the-diprotodon/It's never easy being the (really, really old) new guy, but 'Darren' our new fossilised Diprotodon already feels like part of the family.
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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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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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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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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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Riversleigh Tube-nosed Bandicoot
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/yarala-burchfieldi/Yarala burchfieldi is one of the oldest and smallest bandicoots known, as well as the most archaic. It would have foraged in the forest leaf litter for insects and may have been at least partly carnivorous, like the dasyurids.
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