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00:00Ice Age Australia, home to giant and bizarre animals known as megafauna.
00:10Herds of wombat-like herbivores run vast grasslands, living alongside kangaroos
00:19with strange short faces. And ruling this land, the apex predators. Heavily armoured
00:31giant lizards and a marsupial killing machine armed with bone-crushing jaws.
00:40These majestic animals lived here for millions of years, but in a blink of time
00:48they were wiped from the face of the earth. So what happened?
00:58Today, experts are gathering clues from remote and inhospitable parts of
01:05Australia. There's been 12 people on the moon and 10 people in this cave.
01:10This place is like nowhere else in the world really. This is pretty bloody good.
01:16These scientists are testing the leading theories behind this disappearance.
01:21Is this the smoking gun that explains the megafauna extinctions?
01:25New evidence will rewrite Australia's Ice Age cold case.
01:31What killed Australia's giants?