Mega sharks and a bird with a six-metre wingspan graced our shoreline 5 million years ago, and urban explorers can still uncover traces of them at this bayside beach.
Scarcely signposted, tucked behind a yacht squadron car park and accessible via an overgrown grass track lies one of Australia’s most significant urban fossil sites.
“It’s very significant because there aren’t many sites of that age in Australia that give you a very diverse view of the marine life – not just fish and sharks, but mammals, birds and invertebrates.”It’s revealed rare and ancient sharks, whales and dugongs, and is the only Australian site to produce fossils from the pelagornithid, an extinct species of toothed bird that had a six-metre wingspan.“When I was eight, I had my first visit to the Beaumaris site.
He says the scale and significance of the Beaumaris site first dawned on him when he had the enviable task of unboxing fossils following the museum’s relocation to the Carlton Gardens.Fitzgerald was awestruck by the sheer number and diversity of fossils, especially hundreds and hundreds of shark teeth, treasures now occupying multiple cabinets in the museum’s archive.risk of development
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