At Ubirr we see a giant kangaroo painted beneath layers of other images. Each image placed above another image shows how long ago they were created. While paleontologists make recreations of animals, they are only ideas of what they think animals looked like in the past. They base their images off of bone structure, where muscles sit on the face and what similar species look like. They may not necessarily look the same as the animal appeared, because they are merely representations. When we look at images created by an Aboriginal person, it could be argued that they represent the closest version of what animals of the past looked like. This is because they were most likely created at the time the illustrator was looking at them.
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