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Bone fingerprints unlock hidden underwater stories

Bones preserved in underwater caves offer a rare window into the past, but until now researchers have had limited tools to understand how they got there.

AAP · Jul 17

Cave divers catch a glimpse of Australia's distant past

A cave-diving palaeontologist hopes fossils hidden in a system of subterranean caverns will shed light on the mystery of Australia's megafauna extinction.

AAP · Nov 11, 2023

Cave diving detectives search for fossils in hidden depths to shed light on giant life forms

Julien Louys has been hunting answers in a vast network of underwater caves, as he seeks to shed light on the mystery surrounding giant marsupials that once roamed the earth.

ABC News · Apr 10, 2023

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We found 2.9-million-year-old stone tools used to butcher ancient hippos – but likely not by our ancestors

On the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a short valley extends south towards the looming Mount Homa. From it have emerged some of the oldest-known stone tools used to butcher large animals, as well as the oldest remains of one of our early cousins, Paranthropus – a genus we…

The Conversation · Feb 9, 2023

2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools

The discovery of fossils of 2.9-million-year-old butchered hippopotamus surrounded by crafted stone tools in Kenya suggests early humans may not have been the first species to use tools.

ABC News · Feb 9, 2023

For the first time ever, we have a complete skull description of a true fossil giant wombat

The place we call Australia today was in many ways vastly different 80,000 years ago.

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2022

Researchers discover 'true giant wombat' megafauna species fossil in central Queensland

Researchers discover "true giant wombats" weighing up to 130 kilograms that lived in central Queensland about 80,000 years ago.

ABC News · Dec 12, 2022

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