Australia: Land Beyond Time

00:00:31 One of nature's masterworks

00:02:45 Primeval landscapes belie its rich resourceful life

00:04:33 has taken them through cool forests and fiery deserts

00:05:50 Africa South America and India were formed

00:06:53 and its moist rainforest all but disappeared

00:08:17 Once you could walk to Antarctica from here

00:10:07 When food is plentiful the males are active

00:11:12 with two different formulas of milk at the same time

00:12:31 Koalas use as little energy as possible resting about 19 hours a day

00:14:12 have met the desert's challenge with subtlety and resource

00:15:40 Six feet below the surface

00:16:58 Out here black ants are one food that never runs out

00:18:55 Luckily for the perentie it is immune

00:20:59 One of the most remarkable living links with that ancient world

00:22:11 is the Echidna

00:23:34 Clear skies parched earth and searing heat become the rule of life

00:25:07 Emu families have a similar hard choice to make

00:26:58 Vast networks of wetlands that have been dry since last season are flooded again

00:29:42 the burrowing frog awakes from its long sleep

00:31:53 One of the few large predators in this land also participates in the bonanza

00:34:03 Pelicans normally breed in small scattered communities

00:36:25 Inevitably the flow of water stops

00:37:57 The familiar desert will now reclaim this place

00:39:27 Far more than merely surviving life has triumphed in Australia