AUSTRALIA’S MEGA ANIMALS

In northern Australia is a rocky, wild area called Arnhem Land. Today, it’s home to the Bunitj people and others. It was also home to the ÿ rst peoples to live in Australia. As early as 26,000 years ago, these humans started journaling by drawing on rock faces. Using charcoal or natural crayons, they depicted themselves with animals they saw. ° e people who came after them kept up the journaling, drawing beside or on top of the original pictures.° e layers of drawings tell a story of strange beasts that lived in Australia thousands of years ago: oversized birds, giant striding kangaroos, and other mega-sized animals. ° ese early artists faced a natural world fraught with dangers we