24 JUNE 2021 IELTS READING PRACTICE TEST | EVENING SLOT | Reading Passage 3 | 24 JUNE 2021
24 JUNE 2021 IELTS READING PRACTICE TEST | EVENING SLOT | Reading Passage 3 | 24 JUNE 2021 "Australia's megafauna" Reading Passage 3 What happened to Australia's megafauna, the giant animals that once existed across this enormous continent? A. In 1969, a fossil hunter named Rod Wells came to Naracoorte in South Australia to explore what was then known as Victoria Cave. Wells clawed through narrow passages, and eventually into a huge chamber. Its floor of red soil was littered with strange objects. It took Wells a moment to realize what he was looking at: the bones of thousands of creatures that must have fallen through holes in the ground above and become trapped. Some of the oldest belonged to mammals far larger than any found today in Australia. They were the ancient Australian megafauna - huge animals of the Pleistocene epoch. In boneyards across the continent, scientists have found the fossils of a giant snake, a huge flightless bird, and a seven-foot kangaroo,