Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction Books about Australian dinosaurs Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen

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Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction Books about Australian dinosaurs Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosenDiscover some of the most extraordinary prehistoric creatures the world has ever seen. For most of the past 300 million years, the worlds continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is today. Over time, its creatures began to evolve in ways not seen anywhere else on Earth, with tree climbing