The Story Behind Australia's Weird Animals

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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?

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