The Story Behind Australia's Weird Animals

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/MothLight You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. sailing south through the maze of tropical islands across Malaysia and Indonesia will lead you to an invisible barrier between two worlds. What in reality is a relatively small distance, is a huge gulf between two vastly different ecological regions. Why are the animals so different on either side of this line? To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light... Email: [email protected] If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Sources: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0401814101 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1251981 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X16300694 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-depicting-possible-phylogeographic-origins-of-dingoes-based-on-recent-genetic_fig4_297893383 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2015-0113?journalCode=cjes https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Lames-de-niveau-Toalien-vallee-de-Maros-Sulawesi-Forestier-Blades-from-Toalian_fig18_334289076 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15475160/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17838631/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981122000220 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Prehistoric-fossil-records-and-current-known-distribution-of-Komodo-dragons-Varanus_fig2_332363936 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1095643303002757 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2021390118 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13433535_Implications_of_Deltatheridium_specimens_for_early_marsupial_history https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2012 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216695699_The_breakup_history_of_Gondwana_and_its_impact_on_pre-Cenozoic_floristic_provincialism https://www.britannica.com/science/Wallace-Line This video was sponsored by Brilliant.