Continental drift may have taken main species to Australia: Dijo Thomas

Ooty: Putting forth his arguments on how Kangaroo could have lived in Indian sub-continent, Mr Dijo Thomas, a Kerala biologist, explained that various evidences over the years on various species of animals across the globe showed that presence of similar and identical species on continents that are now immense distances away. “The formation of continents showed that about 250 million years ago all five continents in world were almost a contiguous land mass to form the super continent which is otherwise called Pangea. When the continents drifted away due to geological phenomenon millions of years ago, Australian continent moved to the far south eastern side and Indian sub-continent became housed in the middle of Asia, which made many animal species move to different continents. In case of Kangaroo, the main species stayed in Australia and ecologically adapted to Australian conditions.” “However, some of the species in Kangaroo family, or a sub-species in it, with its gene poll intact could have stayed back in the Indian sub-continent.