Were Australia’s First Peoples the World’s First Paleontologists?
Did Indigenous Australians hunt the continent’s now-extinct megafauna, or did they engage with fossils in a more symbolic and scientific way?
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Fossil news from Australia: ancient wallabies, tiny toothed whales, extinct megafauna and the First Peoples who found fossils first.
Australia’s Shark-Toothed Whale Adds a New Chapter to Whale Evolution
Fossil hunters have pulled a startling creature from the past in Australia. A tiny whale with razor teeth and huge eyes from 26 million years ago.
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Prehistoric Australian Wallaby Has Closest Living Relative in New Guinea
Fossils found in central Australia reveal a surprising link: a 6-million-year-old wallaby is related to forest-wallabies now found only in New Guinea.
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