Of bunyips and other beasts: living memories of long-extinct creatures in art and stories
- Written by Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
An illustration of Palorchestes azael, a marsupial tapir from the Pleistocene of Australia. There is evidence that this extinct species is depicted in rock art from the Kimberley.Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons
On many continents during the last ice age, typically from about 50,000 to 12,000 years ago, species of megafauna that had lived there for...
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