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Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia
Contributors:
By (Author) Danielle Clode
Publisher:
Museum of Victoria
Imprint:
Museum of Victoria
Publication Date:
1st May 2009
Country:
Australia
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Dewey:
567.9
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
72
Dimensions:
Width 190mm, Height 255mm
Description
In the Footsteps of Giants, the second in the Museum Victoria Nature series, introduces the reader to the amazing world of Australian megafauna in the Pleistoceine era. Imagine an Australian landscape in which Diprotodon optatum roamed - this rhinoceros-sized diprotodon was probably the largest marsupial ever to exist. There was also the awesome Megalania prisca, an enormeous goanna-like carnivore that weighed at least 600 kg and grew to 5.5 metres long. Even Zaglossus hacketii, an echidna, was the size of a sheep!
