Australian Aboriginal animals

Kangaroos are large hopping marsupials. The female carries its babies in a pouch in its abdomen.

Koala

Koalas are cuddly little tree-dwelling animals with big noses. They are endangered marsupial mammals.

Tasmanian Tiger

The Tasmanian Tiger, a marsupial wolf, is now extinct. People hunted it to extinction. The last died in 1936.

Red Belly Black Snake

Red Bellied Black Snakes are poisonous. They have a purple-black body and a red-orange belly.

Blobfish

The Blobfish is the ugliest animal in the world. It has a jelly-like body and lives at depths of 1000 over meters.

Platypus

Platypuses are very unusual, shy, nocturnal, egg laying mammals referred to as monotremes.

Cassowary

Cassowaries are endangered Australian rainforest birds. They are most dangerous birds in the world.

Blue Tongued Lizard

Blue-tongued lizards are skinks that stick out their large blue tongues to scare off predators.

Tasmanian Devil

Tasmanian Devils are carnivorous nocturnal Australian marsupials. They are extinct except in Tasmania.

Wombat

Wombats are burrowing nocturnal herbivorous marsupial mammals that look like a baby bears.

Kookaburra

Kookaburras sound like a human laughing. They love to eat snakes. They are the biggest kingfisher.

Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world. Thousands of plants and animals live there.

Possum

Australian Possums are nocturnal marsupial mammals that only come out at night.

Gouldian Finch

Gouldian Finches are nearly extinct in the wild. Luckily they survive in captivity as popular pets.

Numbat

Numbats are small marsupial anteaters that eat termites. One species became extinct in 1960s.

Dingo

Dingoes are wild dogs. There is controversy as to whether they are native or introduced animals.

Frilled Lizard

Frilled Lizards open their mouth wide and ruffles out their colourful frill like an open umbrella when frightened.

Black Swan

Black Swans are herbivorous aquatic birds that live in the wetlands of south western and eastern Australia.

Shark

Sharks are found around Australia. Shark attacks are wildly publicised but they a infrequent.

Spotted Quoll

Spotted Tailed Quolls are the size of a large cat. They are the second largest carnivorous marsupial.

Antechinus

The Antechinus is a small nocturnal marsupial mouse with a pointy nose. It hunts for small insects.

Parrot

Australia has 56 species of colourful parrots ranging from tiny budgerigars to large cockatoos.

Redback Spider

Redbacks are extremely poisonous nocturnal spiders. Females have a red strip down their upper body.

Tawny Frogmouth

Tawny Frogmouths are nocturnal birds of prey that eat insects and small animals. They look like owls.

Penguin

Fairy Penguins, found along the southern coast, are the smallest penguin species in the world.

Flying Fox

The photo isn't upside down. Flying Foxes rest this way. They are flying mammals known as megabats.

Lyrebird

Lyrebirds are a capable of mimicking almost any sound including those of chainsaws, horns, even trains.

Echidna

Echidnas are egg-laying mammals called a monotremes. They are anteaters.

Crocodile

Saltwater Crocodiles, the largest in the world, are found in waterways in northern parts of Australia.

Night Parrot

Night Parrots are an endangered species. Only 250 survive today. They lives in the Australian Outback.

Taipan

Taipans are large fast-moving snakes. They are some of the most venomous snakes in the world.

Thorny Devil

Thorny Devils lizards, of the Outback, are armoured with spikes and have great camouflaging skills.

Handfish

Hand fish prefer to walk on their pectoral and pelvic fins rather than swim. They are critically endangered.

Bilby

Bilbies are small omnivorous marsupial with pointy ears and snout. They live in the Outback

Bandicoot

Bandicoots are small nocturnal omnivorous marsupials with pointy snouts.

Australian Marsupials

Marsupials, the pouched mammals of Australia, have evolved into some interesting and unusual animals.