The fossils of prehistoric megafauna, which have been perfectly preserved for hundreds of thousands of years, give Queensland scientists an insight into Australia's past.
Scientists are discovering new megafauna and other unusual species at The Caves near Rockhampton.Scientists will continue to study the fossils to determine how the species coped with climate change.
"Looking back into this fossil record gives us an interesting glimpse of a weird and wonderful world that's extinct," Dr Hocknull said. Particularly from more recent discoveries of extinct species like the thylacine and thylacoleo ."And so this is one of the only places in Australia where you find both occurring in the same site."
Tourists at The Caves can dig for fossils that are then sent to palaeontologists at the Queensland Museum. "It's the only fossil record of these kinds of species in Australia for this time period. So we find a lot of new species that they've never discovered before.""In addition to that, we do school camps, and every term is pretty much full, so there is never a day when we don't have kids coming or going and doing activities here," Ms Bambrick said.
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