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"Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern
day Australia was located much further south on Earth. In fact, what is now
Victoria was once within the polar circle, up to 80 degrees south of the
equator and shrouded in darkness for months at a time.
Despite these harsh conditions, dinosaurs thrived here, leaving behind evidence
of their existence at various palaeontological sites.
For decades, scientists have come to these sites to study the rocks containing
the bones of these ancient creatures in order to better understand them.
My new research with palynologist Barbara Wagstaff, published in Alcheringa,
builds on existing knowledge by using plant fossils from bone-bearing sites in
the region to explain how the forests these dinosaurs lived in evolved – and,
for the first time, illustrating them in detail."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
