Extinct Australian Animals
The term Australian megafauna refers to a number of megafauna in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch. There are 24 birds one from the mainland seven frogs and 27 mammal species or subspecies strongly believed to have become extinct in Australia since European settlement. Give Animals A Voice About Australian Endangered Animals The Tasmanian Tiger is a prominent example of a recently extinct Australian animal. Extinct australian animals . 25 rows Following is a list of Australian animal extinctions from the arrival of the first European colonists in 1788 before the Aboriginal and prehistory extinctions until the present. These include a reptile called the Christmas Island forest skink and 11 mammals among them species of mouse bandicoot bettong bat and rabbit-rat. That is approximately 1 every 2 years. Get to know 5 of the 300 hundred Australian species at risk of disappearing forever. Since European settlement and introduced predators hundreds of species have become ext...