These Small Oddball Seals Once Called Australia Home – Gizmodo Australia

When most of us think of the prehistoric past, we envision a world of bizarre, often fearsome giants. From dinosaurs to mammoths and even penguins, life then seemed larger than life today.
Millions of years ago in Australia, giant goannas, kangaroos and diprotodontids (wombat relatives) roamed the landscape. The seas teemed with gargantuan predators such as the infamous megalodon shark and so-called giant killer sperm whales.
Fossils from this lost world can be found in sandstone rocks, betwee…

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