Australian Animals Australia's wildlife is unique, rich and diverse due to the long geological isolation from other continents, which took place over the last 50 million years. About half of the Australian mammals are marsupials. Marsupials are pouched mammals, which are born under-developed and then continue their development in a pouch.
Many Australian animals are active at night.
This is important as it allows them to conserve water in a country which is hot and dry. All pages within this site are Copyright.