The most obvious ones are Marsupials like Kangaroos and Koalas and Marsupial Mice. King Brown Snakes also live there and only there. The Box Jellyfish is found only in the waters near Australia too. There are also many parrot-type birds that live there and only there, like Sulphur Crested Cockatoos.
Some of the wonderful animals that live in Australia also exist in Papua New Guinea, mainly because that island is so close. But, aside from those, there are many unique species that exist in Australia and Australia alone.
Other than the opposum (native to North America) the continent of Australia has the highest concentration of marsupial species than any other. Additionally, it has another class of organisms called monotremes, which are egg laying mammals such as the platypus and the echidna.
Marsupial species include kangaroos, wallabys, koala bears, tasmanian devils, and bandicoots and the extinct tasmanian tiger.
Other unique species include the giant birds called Emus.
Dingos are a species of wild dogs, but they didn't evolve on the continent, they were imported by seafaring races from the Indies and the like thousands of years ago.
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There are many. Far too many to name here.
The most obvious ones are Marsupials like Kangaroos and Koalas and Marsupial Mice. King Brown Snakes also live there and only there. The Box Jellyfish is found only in the waters near Australia too. There are also many parrot-type birds that live there and only there, like Sulphur Crested Cockatoos.
Some of the wonderful animals that live in Australia also exist in Papua New Guinea, mainly because that island is so close. But, aside from those, there are many unique species that exist in Australia and Australia alone.
Other than the opposum (native to North America) the continent of Australia has the highest concentration of marsupial species than any other. Additionally, it has another class of organisms called monotremes, which are egg laying mammals such as the platypus and the echidna.
Marsupial species include kangaroos, wallabys, koala bears, tasmanian devils, and bandicoots and the extinct tasmanian tiger.
Other unique species include the giant birds called Emus.
Dingos are a species of wild dogs, but they didn't evolve on the continent, they were imported by seafaring races from the Indies and the like thousands of years ago.
Dingo
Kangaroo
Platypus
Wallaby
Koala
Echidna
Wombat
Kookaburra
Emu
Bandicoot
Numbat
Quokka (Rottnest :D)
And many other speciaes of Mouse, Rat, Possum, Snake, Spider, Crocodile, Penguin... and many other species ^-^
Platypus!
There is:
platypus
wallabys
koala bears
kangaroo's
platypus
marsupials and monotremes
dingo or kangoroo