Australia's Lost Kingdoms

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

Site sections

Showtime

Catch up on the movies featured in Australia's Lost Kingdoms. To view the movies, you will need the RealMedia plug-in, available here.

Climate changes

See how changing climates have helped to shape Australia.

Altering environments

Witness the changes that have occurred to Australia's environments.

Seeing through rock

Space age magic! - see through a block of rock to the fossils inside.

Riches and variety

Australia's past and present treasure trove - the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site

Rise of the Eucalypts

Where did all the rainforests go? Take a visual whizz through time and see what happened to Australia's forests.

Australian Museum site sections

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