Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel

You’ve probably heard that the country down under, Aka Australia, is the land of nope. Well, its kind of true, as Australia does have way more lethal animals that the average country does, but in true Australian fashion, it turns out that in the past it was 100x worse.

If you want more ExtinctZoo 🦖:

0:00 Australia's Wildlife is Unhinged
1:01 Prehistoric Australia Was So Much Worse
1:43 Land Crocs That Could Outrun You
3:53 'Komodo Dragons' The Size Of Rhinos
6:33 Giant Man Eating Snakes
8:31 A Killer Koala/Lion Hybrid With Knife-like Teeth
11:05 The Elephant Sized Wombat
12:11 Ostriches On Steroids
13:09 And Prehistoric Australia Keeps Getting Worse...
9:00 What Happened To The Humans That Met These Megabeasts?

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[rezaganjizadeh]

Most civillizations: "I farm."
Aussies: "monster hunter."

[RodneyMunch]

Ha Ha - That photo of the kid holding the Bunya pine cone against his head at 0:52 seconds is my son Oscar. It was taken in 2012 after we walked in the Cumberland State Forest, Sydney, NSW. One of the trails was closed because these massive pine cones could potentially fall out of the trees and kill someone, but we picked up one of the fallen pine cones, and I took this photo when we got home. Someone suggested I upload it to the Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) Wiki page, so I did. I'm thrilled that ExtincZoo used the photo; it brought back happy memories.

[me-ree]

Bro im convinced that australia is just one huge endgame dlc expansion. All we're missing is the lore

[mojo_joju]

I grew up in Australia and have met many wonderful Aboriginal Australians who are honestly just the most humble, hardiest people I’d ever met in my life.
Their connection to the fauna and the flora is incredible, and they’ve been taught for generations by their elders to survive in the harshest environments you could imagine.
It’s fascinating, but also extremely useful because if you’re not careful, you could easily go missing, badly hurt, or die out in the bush, even around civilization.

[toby]

What’s even more ironic is that Australia’s direct neighbour New Zealand has pretty much no dangerous wildlife at all with a lot of there birds evolving without wings because there were no predators on the ground to eat them up

[blazingtrs]

gotta give it to the ancient australian aboriginals for picking a nightmare difficulty server and making it their home.

[oilybat]

They should make an ancient Australian survival game

[Mike-Lascow]

A survival horror movie about a prehistoric family or tribe trying to survive in Australia would be cool to watch .

[tonimarx]

I live in Perth, Western Australia. Back in 2013 i was training for a half marathon. I used to run alongside Swan River on a long track that weaved in and out of bushland.
One particular day i was busy jogging along and realised really needed to urinate. So i quickly ducked into the bush to relieve myself. All of a sudden, as i was stood there, a gigantic Eastern Brown Snake lunged directly at my crotch and missed it by about an inch. I was so startled that i fell back and pissed all over myself. I managed to jump back onto my feet and momentarily gawped at the huge snake that was still in front of me. It must have been at least 2 metres long and i was stunned at how thick and powerful it looked. I had never seen such an imposing wild reptile up close. It's head looked truly prehistoric, with a remarkably angry expression. It quickly began coiling up into a striking position again, so i bolted in the opposite direction as fast as my legs could carry me.
Sometimes i get a shudder down my spine thinking about how close i came to getting tagged on my pecker by a deadly Eastern Brown Snake and how dreadful my death would have been if it had succeeded in its mission.

[mateorios]

Prehistoric Australia: Ark
Modern Australia: Pokemon

[Wierdman]

Nothing is scarier than seeing a giant lizard walking in its two feet run towards you 😢

[lilliputianhitcher]

as an Australian, whenever i hear this sentiment i roll my eyes — much of our “dangerous” creatures are located remotely, 80% of Australia is uninhabited. America, on the other hand, has bears, coyotes, pumas, wolves, etc all quite close to residential areas. Additionally, if a pest rodent bites me, the concern of contracting rabies is nonexistent here as we don’t have rabies at all.

[TheBanjoShowOfficial]

It’s insane the dynamic nature of humans, where one alone is quite rather weak and hopeless, but when in a group, we are absolutely deadly and literally unstoppable. Nothing stands a chance against humanity, despite our inherent resounding weaknesses

[joshuapatrick]

Humans: maybe we're the Monsters?!?

Australia: nah bruh...

[pythoncasey]

As an Australian I always wondered why Mexico, Brazil, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia don't get the sensational "everything will kill you" hype Australia does. All of them have deadly snakes and deadly crocodiles, if they have oceans they all have sharks, jellyfish, and stingrays, and yet Australia is the only one of those countries that doesn't have any bears or big cats... So what does Australia have that makes us stand out from those countries? My theory: Abundance of British people comparing Australia to Europe instead of Indonesia, it's the only one considered "First World/Developed" so we are a lot more dramatic about having relatively normal tropical wildlife

[DavidisEepy]

A prehistoric survival game based in Australia would actually be pretty lit though

[chadgorosaurus]

If Australia right now is hard mode, then Australia just a few million years ago must've been hell mode.

[lolzorkid]

So basically if we had tamed it, we could have called it the 'combat wombat'.

[HoneymanAudioProductions]

Ancient human: "Oh don't worry, that's not technically a crocodile. Hey wait, where's Jerry?"

[ThtSunbreaker]

Saw a guy here say that their hunting goals were to "hit it really hard" and as an indigenous australian myself that rubbed me the wrong way being a gross over generalisation and very ignorant thing to say so I thought id use this chance to educate people on some of the unique and frankly awesome hunting tools my culture used and sometimes still uses.

First we have the Woomera or the "spear thrower" to put it more literally, its a large oblong piece of wood with some ornamental carvings that change tribe to tribe, the goal here being as the name implied to throw spears, this item was used to leverage more velocity from the spear and acted like an extension to ones throwing arm making it a lethal tool for hunting and warfare alike, they can come in any number of designs being rounded or even with a sort of 'tie' look you could say and are most common in western australia.

And another more common and tried and true tested weapon is the spear, it needs no introduction as its been used in many different cultures over many hundreds of years.

However indigenous australians made it rather differently utilising the Tecoma Vine, they straighten this curly vine by getting rid of the moisture by heating the branch over a fire while the plant is still green, as they do this they begin to shape it into the desired shape at which point a wooden barb is attached to the tip using animal sinew often times kangaroo or emu, its then tapered to fit onto the spear at which point we have a finished product standing ~9ft tall.

One more weapon that again needs no introduction is the Boomerang, which while used blunt force trauma to hunt served many wider varieties such as a digging tool or hammer, even a musical instrument for ceremonies! its rather simple design, being a carved piece of wood taken often from large thick branches and serves as an astonishing marvel of ancient physics.


There are many more weapons that are used and occasionally even a bow would be used, my culture is built off creativity and a keen understanding of the world around them, I do hope that people read this cause genuinely I want more people to be less ignorant as I dont believe shutting people out because they 'arent part of the people' is good, I think it causes misinformation and ignorance as ive seen today, I implore you all to try and learn about my culture and many others as they have some fascinating stories to tell.

For example, a little known thing is that potentially indigenous australians were the earliest known culture to develop bread, similar to sour dough (ive tried it btw its actually really good)

Use this as your sign and reason to learn and understand the world around you I beg.