This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelorette with Jeremy Zakis and New South Wales.

And Jeremy and I ordinarily do our reptile report at this point, scary reptiles because

Australia has got a completely different ecosystem than anything I'm familiar with.

I've learned that there are a great number of venomous snakes or snakes otherwise causing

problems by coming in your house.

I've also learned that two thirds of the mammals in Australia are marsupials, which is a completely

different system than the eucerin system of the North America.

Human beings included.

Now I'm learning that Australia has creatures that go extinct and then they pop up again.

Jeremy, who have you found and have you ever seen one?

Well this is incredible John.

What we have found here in Australia now is called the Eelus Dragon.

And as the name suggests, it's basically a dragon looking creature.

It's only around about six inches long.

So it's fairly small little creature.

But it is something that really has been living in the Australian habitat for thousands

of years, pretty much before 1969 when they were declared extinct.

But the thing is John, this Eelus Dragon has now been rediscovered after over 50 years

of being undiscovered near Victoria, near its natural habitat.

And that the reality is, John, unfortunately it's a bit of a sad story as to why they became

extinct because there used to be very, very prevalent around Melbourne and around Jolong.

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