What Was Australia Like During The Ice Age?

What Was Australia Like During The Ice Age?

Some 180 million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwana split. One of the breakaway landmasses from that separation contained what would become Australia and Antarctica. By 30 million years ago Australia had fully separated and journeyed north on its own. Since then, changes in land formation and climate, and the physical separation from the rest of the world, led to the unique flora and fauna that we know in Australia today. More than 80% of our plants, mammals, reptiles, and frogs are unique to Australia and are found nowhere else in the world.
Thousands of years ago, the inland region of eastern Australia was a far cry from the sere place it is today. During the Ice Age, this part of the Southern Hemisphere hosted its own array of big charismatic creatures—answers to the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats up north—some of which roamed the then-forested regions of Queensland and Victoria. In a country famous today for its curious and sometimes venomous fauna, Australia’s prehistoric menagerie has proven just as weird, if not weirder.
Australia is so different from the rest of the world because it’s geographically isolated. It broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana 99 million years ago and has been doing its own thing ever since. That’s why it has so many marsupials compared to everywhere else. It was only in the Pleistocene that placental mammals were able to come over from Southeast Asia as the continent drew closer to Indonesia, and then, only bats and rats.
Most large mammals and birds went extinct at the end of the Ice Age, but Australia was the hardest hit of all the continents, with 90% going extinct. Uniformitarians try to explain this via two different hypotheses: either they went extinct because of climate change, or humans hunted them to extinction.

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[timothyryan]

I live in Western Australia and up north in the Kimberly there are cave rock painting of mega fun’s, the First Nation came to Australia about 60, 000 years ago and they think some of the mega animals we’re hunting out by them and with the ice age they had no feed.

[dracodracarys]

and now i feel even worse about the tasmanian tiger knowing they were a relic of this age of weird australian beasts and then people sorta just wiped them out :(

[indyreno]

Prehistoric diprotodonts like the giant short-faced kangaroos (genus Procoptodon), the marsupial lions (family Thylacoleonidae), the marsupial tapirs (family Palorchestidae), the rhino-sized diprotodontids (family Diprotodontidae), the ektopodontids (family Ektopodontidae), the ancestral family to the wombats (family Vombatidae) and the phascolarctids (family Phascolarctidae), which are the ilariids (family Ilariidae).

[paj]

As a Aboriginal man myself from bunjalung country in NSW my tribe were widjabal people I'm 21 myself I have a mother who's the youngest of a family of 4 she's 50 her brothers and her sister are 63
55 and 66 there still alive my uncles were have passed down our Aboriginal Dreamtime story's and our beginning it's absolutely amazing the story's of my ancestors that have been passed down for years they talk a lot about the animals they faced and encountered story's of massive lizards snakes and kangaroos and if your Australian and really want to know about Australia and what happened there best option would be to talk to a Aboriginal elder because my family storys they have been passed down from generation to generation since the start of Australia great video man

[bkjeong]

This is why the idea “Australian wildlife isn’t that dangerous because it has no large land animals” is very misleading; if not for humans, some (though far from all) of these animals would still be around today, including megalania and Diprotodon.

[Littlekoji-dfcf]

Australia before: hell
Australia today: hell.

[parrotking]

You should try doing eocene and miocene animals and climates of each continent
The more lore the better 👍

[jesussandoval]

Can you make a video of Australia before marsupials? It would be very interesting

[theubiquitouspotato]

So basically the marsupial lion is the origin of the drop bear legend.

[stephenchallis]

Thank you for a magnificent video.
My book, "Refugees" is based on the first small group of humans to reach Australia, and their interactions with the mega fauna, so seeing these same animals depicted so well in video form was a real treat for me.

[techno_]

As an Australian: What's a Queenland?

[EranRicos]

This guy’s speaking voice is hilarious.

[samig]

I always knew I’d prefer documentaries if they were narrated by a PA guy from a monster truck rally

[williampulfer-melville]

3:20 marsupial lion actually looks very similar to the fossa an animal native to Madagascar that prey on lemurs

[Langle]

Listening to this guy mispronounce the names of every creature in this video is soooo irritating

[indyreno]

Oceania is the smallest continent in the world and the only continent in the world made up of only islands, thus considering that Australia is an island and by far the largest one, this makes fair sense as the smallest continent in the world gets to have the largest island in the world.

[christosgiannopoulos]

"Demon ducks". So, just regular ducks

[tyrannosthehelldragon]

they forgot to mention that megalania was the largest venomous animal to ever live

[derekbates]

What was Australia Like During the Ice Age?



Hell; it was hell.

[Justyouraveragedaeodon]

Could king cobra survive in Africa and North America
Or
Red panda vs raccoon
Ocelot vs margay
Moose vs elk
Snow leopard vs leopard
Moongoose vs European badger