Australia is the primary home to the monotremes and the marsupials, two of the distinctive lineages of mammals. But did you know that the species alive today are only a small portion of the animals that were present less than a hundred thousand years ago? Just an instant ago- in geological time-- there were gigantic wombats, monster platypuses, titanic kangaroos, and carnivorous beasts...

It takes a observant artist to reconstruct their faces and styles...take a careful look into their eyes and try to imagine the Australian landscape of the Pleistocene....

Diprotodon_by Nobu TamuraDiprotodon_Field_by Nobu TamuraEkaltadeta_by Nobu TamuraEuryzygoma_by Nobu TamuraNototherium_by Nobu TamuraObdurodon_by Nobu TamuraPalorchestes_by Nobu TamuraPhascolonus_by Nobu TamuraProcoptodon_by Nobu TamuraPropleopus_by Nobu Tamura1Protemnodon_by Nobu TamuraPyramios_by Nobu TamuraSimosthenurus_by Nobu TamuraSteropodon_by Nobu TamuraSthenurus_by Nobu TamuraThylacoleo_by Nobu TamuraZygomaturus_by Nobu Tamura

Learn more about the lost marsupials of Australia:

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