Palaeontology

Cavers find huge fossil deposit in Australia

By T.K. Randall
July 27, 2012 ·  6 comments

Image Credit: sxc.hu Located in the far north of Australia, the limestone caves are proving to be a treasure trove of fossil remains from creatures ranging from tiny rats to giant kangaroos. The sheer number and variety of discoveries being made is providing experts with key clues to the ways in which various species adapted to climate change and evolved in to their current forms.

"What we're trying to do up here is really look at the fossils and look at the animals and see how they responded to those prehistoric climatic changes, and that's something that's really quite relevant to today," said University of Queensland paleontologist Gilbert Price.

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