Link to Monsters we met: 2- The burning documentary
Documentary Description
Australia - 65,000 years ago.
Humans travelled out of Africa and reached South-east Asia perhaps as
early as 90,000 years ago. Then around 65,000-68,000 years ago a
momentous event happened - someone discovered Australia. The ancestors
of the Aborigines made a daring sea voyage and set foot on a new and
lonely land.
Ancient Australia was a land of drought and fire, with a unique fauna
dominated by marsupials, reptiles and giant flightless birds. The first
Australians shared their home with the two-tonne Diprotodon, the giant short-faced kangaroo and the platypus.
Emus and cassowaries were dwarfed by the 'demon duck' Genyornis. Predators like the marsupial lion and the giant ripper
lizard, Megalania, stalked the land.