Australia's Lost Kingdoms

In this section

• Geological time
• 110 million years ago
• 65 million years ago
• 55 million years ago
• 20 million years ago
• 8 million years ago
• 4 million years ago
• 100,000 years ago
• 10,000 years ago

100 thousand years ago - time of the giants

The Pleistocene Epoch (1.6 million 10,000 years ago)

Australian fact file

• Australia's Pleistocene facts at your finger tips.

Animal superstars

• King of the pouched predators
• The tallest marsupial

Visit a fossil site

• Take a visit to Naracoorte Caves and Cuddie Springs, two Pleistocene fossil sites, and find out why the fossils recovered there are important to the unfolding story of Australia's past.

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