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Forest home of ‘polar dinosaurs’ 120 million years ago in southern Australia recreated in detail for the first time

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par Vera Korasidis, Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience, The University of Melbourne

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south on Earth. In fact, what is now Victoria was once within the polar circle, up to 80 degrees south of the equator and shrouded in darkness for months at a time.

Despite these harsh conditions, dinosaurs thrived here, leaving behind evidence of their existence at various palaeontological sites.

For decades, scientists have come to these sites to study the rocks containing the bones of these ancient creatures in order to better understand them.

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