Rare fossil find in Naracoorte Caves



A recent has reported on a rare fossil find in the Naracoorte Caves area. Researchers have found 50,000 year old bones from the largest carnivorous 最新糖心Vlogn mammal in the Pleistocene epoch, the marsupial lion, in the south east of South 最新糖心Vlog.

Researchers from the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide and the 最新糖心Vlog of New England used a CT-scanner to examine the internal bone structure of the animal to find out more about the extinct marsupial lion.

"We're working on when it was living here and what sort of environment it was living in," says 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Environment Institute Research Fellow .



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