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Why Australia is full of weird lifeforms like that?
why this country is so special snowflake concerning animals?
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Because it's fairly isolated geographically?
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>>62271209
Evolution
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>>62271256
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convergent evolution

because the land mass broke away relatively early

yw
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>>62271209
french education
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Because whatever animals got there first took over the niche and kept more competent nonfucked up animals from gaining a foothold
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You frogs aren't taught basic biology or what?
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>>62271620
why so rude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution#Bodyplans
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They had a different god working on creationism.
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Australia provided a refuge for older evolutionary lineages that were gone a long time ago in other places to thrive without interference.
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>>62271209
Because Straya was separated from other
continents for a long time, so their faune is mostly composed of Marsupials (an old type of mammal);
while the rest of the continents remained connected. That is why wildlife around the world is made up of placental mammals. They supplanted marsupials. except in Australia.
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>>62272209
I don't know why all the local wildlife want to kill you, tho.
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