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Paleontologists from the Museums Victoria Research Institute and elsewhere have unearthed a nearly 50,000-year-old skeleton of Simosthenurus occidentalis in Nightshade Cave, eastern Victoria, Australia.
A team of recreational cavers and Parks Victoria rangers spent two years in deep underground caves to bring a near-complete skeleton of the extinct short-faced kangaroo to light. Palaeontologist TIM ZIEGLER was there.
Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil? On a two-year retrieval mission of nearly 60 hours in an underground cave, we met our limits—and went beyond.
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