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Australia and New Zealand have been geographically isolated for a very long time. When they broke away from the rest of the continents, the gene pool of the animals and plants in Australia and New Zealand were isolated from the organisms of the mainland. Therefore, these creatures evolved down a different path. Changes in the gene pools in Australia had no effect on the organisms on the mainland and vice versa, so the changes in Australia were completely different.

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