What Scientists Found at Australia's Chinchilla Fossil Site Shouldn't Exist
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In 1887, a museum collector named Henry Hurst spent seventy days combing a Queensland riverbank and walked away with nearly three thousand fossils. More than a century later, researchers are still working through what that single stretch of sand actually contains.
We're pretty much tracing the story of the Chinchilla fossil site, home to the oldest known Komodo dragon fossil anywhere in the world, Diprotodon, the bizarre bulge-cheeked Euryzygoma, and the first fossil evidence of recognizably modern koalas and wombats, collected across 180 years by everyone from a German explorer to two amateur locals who spent 31 years on the riverbank with nothing but patience. A fossil bed still hiding inside an active rifle range, and still giving up new discoveries today.
#FossilDiscovery #AustralianMysteries #DeepTime
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What Scientists Found at Australia's Chinchilla Fossil Site Shouldn't Exist
Ancient Aussie
10,041 views
In 1887, a museum collector named Henry Hurst spent seventy days combing a Queensland riverbank and walked away with nearly three thousand fossils. More than a century later, researchers are still working through what that single stretch of sand actually contains.
We're pretty much tracing the story of the Chinchilla fossil site, home to the oldest known Komodo dragon fossil anywhere in the world, Diprotodon, the bizarre bulge-cheeked Euryzygoma, and the first fossil evidence of recognizably modern koalas and wombats, collected across 180 years by everyone from a German explorer to two amateur locals who spent 31 years on the riverbank with nothing but patience. A fossil bed still hiding inside an active rifle range, and still giving up new discoveries today.
#FossilDiscovery #AustralianMysteries #DeepTime
took my husband and myself to a dry, washed out creek bed, where we spent the day fossicking. We found loads of
stones and pebbles with the imprints of plants in them, and quite a few "desert roses". A friend of my husband brought
me some huge pieces of petrified wood to put in my garden, one was a complete tree root.
While we were living there somebody discovered a new variety of wattle out in the Big Break. The same friend took us out there,to see it, and I painted a picture of it near a road sign, and it was auctioned off for the Chinchilla`s Widows guild.
They were the happiest days of my life out there.