Harriet a 178 year old giant tortoise credited with helping Charles Darwin pioneer the theory of evo-
lution dies in Australia in 2006 June 22.
Australian Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin (44) died on September 4, 2006 following a stingray blow
to the chest while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Port Douglas in
Queenland state.
Marsupial lions, Kangaroos as tall as trucks and wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed
Australias outback before being killed off by fires it by arriving humans. The giant animals lived in
the arid Nullarbor Desert around 400,000 years ago, but died out around 50,000 year ago, rela-
tively shortly after the arrival of human settlers, according to new fossil skeletons found in Caves
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