Study finds famous Australian caves are up to 500,000 years older than we thought - and it could help explain a megafauna mystery

By Rieneke Weij, Postdoctoral researcher in Geochemistry/Palaeoclimatology, University of Cape Town
Jon Woodhead, Research Scientist
Kale Sniderman, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Liz Reed, Research Fellow, University of Adelaide

South Australia’s Naracoorte Caves is one of the world’s best fossil sites, containing a record spanning more than half a million years. Among the remains preserved in layers of sand are the bones of many iconic Australian megafauna species that became extinct…

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