Fossil Dig

Follow the footprints and step back in time to discover one of Australia's largest Megafauna.

As you travel back 50,000 years through time together to the Pleistocene Epoch Period you will discover a very unique Australian landscape. As you open your eyes and explore this landscape what will you see, what will you uncover and what will you discover?

Become a paleontologist within this special period of time in Australian History and you will begin to uncover the largest marsupial that lived throughout the landscape of Australia. With very unique features like:-

1. Height - 1.8m to 2m
2. Length - 3m to 4m
3. Weight - 2,000kg to 2,800kg
4. Habitat all of Austraila

1. Name meaning "two forward teeth" in Greek
2. Diet they were herbivores, and ate shrubs and plants
3. Appearance a heavy, thick body, pillar-like legs, and a small, koala-like nose
4. Pouch direction backward-facing pouches, which helped prevent them from filling with dirt while digging

1. "Banana" Teeth they had upper front teeth that were as big as bananas
2. Fossil evidence footprints show they had hairy feet
3. Closest Relatives wombats are their nearest living relatives. They are also related to koalas
4. Extinction died out around 25,000 years ago possiblydue to climate change

What have you found?