Dinosaurs of darkness / Динозавры из темноты

The past of Australia is the most mysterious of the history of all the continents. Much of its landscape is the oldest in the world. Its heartland seemed almost uninhabitable to the Europeans who came during the last two centuries, and yet it was inhabited—by Aborigines who had come thousands of years before and by a fauna unlike any other in the world. Where the Aborigines came from and when they came is still a subject of debate: the last twenty million years of the history of the marsupial fauna has been intensely studied and is now well understood—a mere tick of the clock in the history of this continent. <...>