Why are there unusual animals on the Australia continent?

Answer 1

because the whole continent of Australia has been isolated from the rest of the worlds animals by the ocean which meant that the pressures on the evolution was entirely different from the rest of the world.

Answer 2

Australia became isolated from the rest of the word as a result of continental drift millions of years ago and life was able to evolve here with different needs for survival, the lack of predators and the sparse human population brought about a situation where survival needs were different from any other place on earth.

Answer 3

Because Australian animal were protected by its isolation from the predators that were a part of Asia.

Answer 4

200 million years ago,the tectonic plate upon which Australia sits separated from the other continents

Answer 5

It is they way that different creatures evolve to allow them to live in different countries.

Answer 6

Because it was cut of from the influences of the majority of the world many thousands of years ago.