Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5241445-20130629173210/@comment-8248675-20130707022654

I though the only marsupial that lives outside Australia, is Virginian Oposum, although I am not sure if Oposums in general live in America or not. More then likely there are other species of Oposums and they do live in North and South America. However, Australia have the biggest variation of them, including Marsupial cat. Until 1930's they even have the wolf, which was commonly known as Tasmanian tiger. That was the bigest, natural predator that lived anywhere in Australia, by the time people arrived on that continent, marsupial wolf dissapeared from mainland and was only found in Tasmania. First Europian settlers, after they brough livestock in Tasmania started to kill the wolfs off since they were killing lots of sheeps (which by the way were out competing native animals.) They say that some people claim that they saw Tasmanian Tigers in deep forest even today, but officialy the animal went extinct in 1930's. Funny, they put protection law on the wolf, at least in one area, where they last seen one in the wild, only after the wolf went officially extinct.

In prehistoric times, they even had a marsupial lion, who was actually a giant, carnivorous, rodent. Also, a curious thing, by the time of Mega fauna dominating every other continents in the world; Australia's apex predator was a reptilian. The huge monitor lizzard Megalania, that dwarfed modern day Comodo Dragon, wich in turn, if I am not mistaken is Megalania's closest relative. Officially that monster went extinct, however, there are still claims of encounters with Megalania in deep forests of some Australian islands.