Two tickets to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. The Aquarium's Australian exhibit, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes, depicts amazing stories of survival in an extreme environment.

The highly adaptive animals in wild Australia have survived over millions of years in a land of drought, fire, and flood.

More Than a Stone's Throw Away
Australia, roughly the same size as the United States, is the world's largest island. Separated by ocean from the rest of the world, Australia has a higher percentage of endemic animals than any other continent on earth, meaning that many of its species are not naturally found outside the country.

These animals -- living creatures that are as close to prehistoric as can be found on earth -- developed over millions of years in solitude.

Most of us will never get within a cooee of these creatures without going to wild extremes.