Australia was in the southern hemisphere, and right now, it was summer in Australia, where the temperature during the day would often reach over 40 degrees celsius.
With such high temperatures, not just humans, but even several animals would have difficulty dealing with it.
Here in the rain shadow lived a species of large black scorpion, and the body of this species was over 20 centimeters long with a completely black exoskeleton, their sharp tail stingers raised high up in the air.
