Info: In 1798 the zoologists of the British Museum in London met to examine the skin of an extraordinary animal, which had been sent to them from New South Wales by a colonist called Dawson. That animal was completely different from anything they'd ever seen before. Its fur was like that of an otter, it had webbed feet like a duck, a flat tail like a beaver and in place of a mouth a duck's bill. Those experts declared Dawson's animal to be an elaborate hoax, but in reality it was just one example of an entirely different wildlife.
Millions of years of isolation had made it possible for a process of parallel evolution to take place in Australia. Ancient groups of mammals who had tried their luck in the fight for survival had almost entirely disappeared from the other continents. While alone on this ...
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