Australia's Lost Kingdoms

Australia's reptiles, birds and mammals from the Cretaceous to the present

Site sections

Games

Play a few fun interactive games and brush up on your rock and fossil identification skills. Then, take part in a debate about the extinction of the Megafauna. To play the games, you will need the Macromedia Shockwave Flash plug-in, available here.

Layers of the past (630kb Flash)

Discover the meaning of the rock layers beneath your feet as you figure out which environment produced which rock.

Pick a bone

Do you know your jaws from your vertebrae? Test your powers of observation as you negotiate through this fun bone identification game

The big animal debate (164kb Flash)

What happened to Australia's Megafauna? Why did most of it become extinct? Come to a virtual dinner and listen to all sides of the argument.

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