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megafauna

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• 06 July 2026The 30-Million-Year-Old Seabed That Became a TrapBeneath the Nullarbor Plain's featureless limestone surface lies a labyrinth of caves that have trapped and preserved Australia's extinct megafauna for 50,000 years.
• 06 July 2026The 50,000-Year-Old Pit That Swallowed the MegafaunaBeneath the Nullarbor Plain, limestone caves preserve complete skeletons of Australia's extinct megafauna—marsupial lions, three-tonne wombats, and giant kangaroos—trapped when they fell through the s
• 19 June 2026The Ice That Carved a Canyon of Bone: Wellington Caves' Fossil Mammal DepositsHow 4-million-year-old cave sediments in central New South Wales preserved the richest record of Australia's lost megafauna, from giant wombats to marsupial lions.
• 13 May 2026The Bone That Rewrote Prehistory: The Mungo Lady and the Willandra LakesIn the dry lakebeds of western New South Wales, 42,000-year-old human remains reveal the world's oldest known cremation and a landscape transformed by Pleistocene climate shifts.