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Meet Darren the Diprotodon!
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/news/blog/meet-darren-the-diprotodon/It's never easy being the (really, really old) new guy, but 'Darren' our new fossilised Diprotodon already feels like part of the family.
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The Pleistocene Epoch (1.6 million-10,000 years ago)
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-pleistocene-epoch/The Pleistocene was the time of the giants, when megafauna roamed the landscape. Australia was close to its current position, but sea levels were much lower. Humans may have first arrived in Australia during this time.
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Australia over time
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/Learn about our evolving landscape, Australian megafauna and other extinct animals and how we use fossils to relate the animals of the past with those of today.
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Thylacoleo carnifex
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/thylacoleo-carnifex/Thylacoleo carnifex, the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known, may have hunted other Pleistocene megafauna like the giant Diprotodon. Thylacoleo was one of the first fossil mammals described from Australia, discovered not long after European settlement.
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Chunia illuminata
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/chunia-illuminata/Chunia was a primitive ektopodontid, a distinctive group of Cainozoic Australian possums that may have been specialized seed-eaters. Ektopodontids, first thought to be monotremes, had short faces, large, forward-facing eyes and the most unusual and complex teeth of any marsupial.
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Yarala burchfieldi
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/yarala-burchfieldi/Yarala burchfieldi is one of the oldest and smallest bandicoots known, as well as the most archaic. It would have foraged in the forest leaf litter for insects and may have been at least partly carnivorous, like the dasyurids.
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Wakaleo vanderleuri
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/wakaleo-vanderleuri/Wakaleo vanderleuri was a dog-sized thylacoleonid ('marsupial lion') and one of the largest predators in Australia during the Miocene. Like other thylacoleonids, Wakaleo had teeth that were modified for stabbing and cutting.