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New Finds in Australia

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  • 03-09-2009 12:46pm
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    Highlights from the site believed to be up to 7 million years old include a hippo like animal called Zygomaturus gilli, a crocodile skull, giant flightless bird remains and wombat like creatures.
    “The reality is we know perhaps one percent of Australia’s fossil history. It’s like having ten pieces in a 1000-piece jigsaw; there’s a great temptation to reconstruct the picture based on those pieces, but the likelihood is that we’ll almost certainly get it wrong.”

    Full article here.

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