When the first spexplorers reached Australia, they initially noticed what was different from HE, starting with the dinosaurian fauna, and working their way down through the bizarre and unexpected monotremes, tingamarrs, and gondwanatheres of the continent. Very little attention was given to the various marsupials seen scurrying through the undergrowth and climbing through the trees. It wasn't until a detailed morphological and genetic study of the continent's marsupial fauna was undertaken that it was discovered that all marsupials in Spec's Australasia were, by all indications, bandicoots.