Bounty beneath the Nullarbor

Tim Lincoln

Nature, 2007, vol. 445, issue 7126, 377-377

Abstract: Fossil bonanza A rich source of fossils recently discovered in caves beneath the arid, treeless Nullarbor Plain of western Australia offers a rare glimpse of life in the continent in the Middle Pleistocene (between around 800,000 and 200,000 years ago), long before humans arrived. Despite the remarkable diversity of animals and plants, including eight previously unknown kangaroo species, two of them tree kangaroos, the climate was similar to that of today. This means that climate change alone is unlikely to have been responsible for the subsequent wave of extinctions that swept away most of the Australian megafauna.

Date: 2007
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