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Perameles bowensis
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/perameles-bowensis/Perameles bowensis, from the Pliocene of New South Wales, is one of the oldest and most primitive of the Peramelidae, the family to which most Australian bandicoots belong.
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Trilophosuchus rackhami
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/trilophosuchus-rackhami/Trilophosuchus rackhami was a small mekosuchine crocodile from the early Miocene of northern Australia. It had a short, deep head, large eyes and three longitudinal ridges along its skull (giving it its name).
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Wakaleo
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/wakaleo-vanderleuri/Wakaleo vanderleuri was a dog-sized thylacoleonid ('marsupial lion') and one of the largest predators in Australia during the Miocene. Like other thylacoleonids, Wakaleo had teeth that were modified for stabbing and cutting.
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Murgonemys braithwaitei
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/murgonemys-braithwaitei/Murgonemys braithwaitei, known from a nearly complete shell (carapace), was a trionychid (soft-shelled) turtle and the oldest trionychid from the Southern Hemisphere.
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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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Paljara tirarense
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/paljara-tirarense/Paljara tirarense was a small ringtail possum (family Pseudocheiridae) from the early Miocene of South Australia and northwestern Queensland. Ringtail possums were once much more diverse than they are today, distributed across many now-dry parts of Australia that were forested during the Cainozoic.
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The Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-pleistocene-epoch/During the Pleistocene (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) the word had many examples of large animals that are collectively known as Megafauna. 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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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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