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The Great Drought - 30,000 To 15,000 Years Ago

Season 1 | Episode 2 | ABC | July 21, 2013

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Indigenous Australians

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In the second part of this 4-part series we move into the biggest drought ever experienced by people. For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna like the six metre giant lizard magalarnia and the marsupial lion. But all these beasts went extinct during the last ice age.

In the second part of this 4-part series we move into the biggest drought ever experienced by people. For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna like the six metre giant lizard magalarnia and the marsupial lion. But all these beasts went extinct during the last ice age.

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