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Why are a lot of marsupials in the Australian continent?

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Marsupials however had to share South America with huge terror birds and crocodiles, so they didn't exactly have the continent to themseleves. Some sort of South American marsupial managed to cross through Antarctica and into Australia around 50 million years ago, just before it split apart from Antarctica. read more

” Australia is a very ancient continent that has very ancient and relatively shallow soils with relatively low fertility. These are called fossil soils in fact. read more

I am intrigued as to why Australia ( along with Tasmania, Papua new Guinea) is home to various marsupial mammals and also monotremes like the duck-billed platypus, but these are not found in any other continent. I recently read a book which said that fossils of marsupials have been found in South america. read more

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