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There are many animals on mainland Australia, Tasmania and on the nearby islands, including New Zealand, New Guinea, and Indonesia (to name but a few). Many animals are unique to this part of the world.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world; it is off the northeast coast of Australia. There are also many flightless birds, monotremes, and marsupial mammals in Australia and nearby islands. Some dinosaur fossils have also been found in Australia; these reptiles roamed Australia over 65 million years ago.

On these pages, Australia is regarded as an island and a continent (but not as a country; political affiliations are ignored).

The following is a sampling of these amazing creatures. Click on an animal to go to a printout:

Australian Animals: Label Me! Printout Label Australian animals. Answers	Australian Animals Printable Book for Early Readers A short, printable book about Australian animal early readers. The book has pages on the kangaroo, koala, dingo, emu, echidna, kookaburra, wombat, bilby, and sugar glider.	Australian Animals Wheel Make an Australian animals word wheel using this 2-page print-out; it consists of a base page together with a wheel that spins around. When you spin the wheel, eight Australian animals appear one at a time: duck-billed platypus, kangaroo, koala, kookaburra, sugar glider, wombat, blue-tongued skink, cassowary, cockatoo, echidna (spiny anteater), emu, and dingo. The student then writes down the word wheel Australian animals -- in alphabetical order.	Australian Animals Word Pieces Puzzle In this puzzle, combine pairs of word segments to make Australian animal names. Words: bilby, cassowary, cockatoo, dingo, echidna, kangaroo, koala, kookaburra, platypus, quokka, wallaby, wombats. Or go to the answers.
Bandicoot Bandicoots are marsupials with pointy snouts.	Bilby The bilby (also known as the rabbit-eared bandicoot) is a small marsupial with long ears. It is the largest bandicoot.	Black Swan A dark swan originally from Australia.	Bluebottle Also known as the Portuguese man-of-war, this floating colony of animals has very long, stinging tentacles. It lives in warm ocean waters.
Blue Ring Octopus A small, but very venomous octopus from warm reefs in Australia and nearby regions.	Blue-tongued Skink An Australian lizard with a long, blue tongue.	Blue Whale A baleen whale that is the largest animal ever on Earth.	Cassowary A huge, flightless bird from Australia with a helmet-like crest on its head.
Cockatoo Cockatoos are birds with a large, feathery crest and a hooked bill.	Dingo The dingo is a wild dog from Australia.	Dinornis The largest bird that ever lived. This flightless bird is extinct, but lived in New Zealand until the early 1800's.	Duck-Billed Platypus The Duck-billed Platypus is a primitive mammal from Australia. Go to a platypus guiz or go to the answers.
Echidna The echidna is a primitive, egg-laying mammal from Australia and New Guinea.	Ekaltadeta A huge, extinct, meat-eating rat-kangaroo from Australia.	Emu The emu is a large Australian bird that cannot fly.	Frilled Lizard A lizard with a huge neck frill.
Great White Shark An enormous, ferocious predator found worldwide.	Humpback Whale A long-flippered baleen whale that sings and frolics in the water.	Kakapo A large, flightless, nocturnal, solitary parrot from New Zealand.	Kangaroo Kangaroos hop and have pouches. Their babies are called joeys. Go to a kangaroo quiz or go to the answers.
Kangaroo (Simple version) Kangaroos hop and have pouches. Their babies are called joeys.	Kiwi A chicken-sized flightless bird from New Zealand.	Koala The koala is an Australian marsupial. It is not a bear.	Koala Read and Answer Quiz Take a quiz on the koala; read the text, then answer the questions. Or go to the answers .
Koala (Simple version) The koala is an Australian marsupial. It is not a bear.	Kookaburra A large bird from the islands of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Or go to a kookaburra quiz -- or the answers.	Leaellynasaura An Australian plant-eating dinosaur with large eyes.	Moa A huge, extinct, flightless bird from New Zealand.
Monotremes Monotremes are primitive, egg-laying mammals. Spiny anteaters and the duck-billed platypus are monotremes.	Minke Whale The smallest baleen whale. It has a white band on each flipper.	Muttaburrasaurus A plant-eating dinosaur with thumb spikes.	Nabarlek A small wallaby from northern Australia.
Numbat The numbat (also known as the banded anteater) is a pouchless, diurnal marsupial.	Platypus, Duck-Billed The Duck-billed Platypus is a primitive mammal from Australia. Go to a platypus guiz or go to the answers.	Quokka The Quokka is a marsupial from Australia, a type of wallaby.	Quoll The Quoll is a cat-sized carnivorous marsupial from Tasmania and mainland Australia.
Rainbow Lorikeet A small, colorful, brush-tongued parrot from Australia.	Red Kangaroo Red Kangaroos are large roos from Australia.	Ringtail Possum A small, nocturnal plant-eating marsupial with long tail.	Sperm Whale The largest toothed whale, over 50 feet long. It eats giant squid.
Sugar Glider This small marsupial (also known as the lesser flying phalanger) glides from tree to tree in Australia and nearby islands.	Tasmanian Devil Tasmanian Devils are nocturnal, meat-eating marsupials from Tasmania.	Tasmanian Tiger The Tasmanian Tiger was a large, meat-eating marsupial from Tasmania, mainland Australia, and New Guinea. It is probably extinct.	Tuatara An unusual reptile from islands off New Zealand.
Wallaby Wallabies are closely related to kangaroos.	Wombat The wombat is a rare, burrowing marsupial from the mainland Australia and Tasmania.	Zebra Bullhead Shark A bottom-dwelling shark with zebra-like stripes.

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