Strange Australian facts
Spectacular beaches, mile after mile of unspoilt outback and its vibrant, cosmopolitan city life; just a few of the things for which we know and love Australia. But what about some of the interesting stuff we never get to hear about?
Here are a few of the lesser reported facts about the land down under you might not have heard before:
Land of the giants
As recently as 20,000 – 40,000 years ago, Australia was home to an impressive array of now extinct species of megafauna. Aboriginal Australians co-existed and hunted animals like the Diprotodon, a giant marsupial the size of a rhinoceros, carnivorous kangaroos and Procoptodon – the largest species of kangaroo that ever existed, which stood up to 3 metres tall.
There is some argument over what caused the extinction of these animals; it could have been climate change, human hunting or a combination of factors.
