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explain why similar plants and animals found in the continents of Africa , south america,Australia and India

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because they have inner organs that keep them alive and they reproduce and they have a heart the organ heart not the valentine heart. or were you asking how there ever lived to be such an odd creature?? this is the answer to that: Australia parted from the other continents a while before the other continents parted the animals on Australia at that time to now had more time to evolve differently than the animals of the rest of the world. Strange animals such as the platypus, and the Tasmanian devil. I hope this helped