Agence France-Presse: Australian cavers have stumbled upon a vast network of tunnels containing fossils that could offer key insights into species' adaptation to climate change, scientists have confirmed. The limestone caves in Australia's far north contained what University of Queensland paleontologist Gilbert Price described as a "fossil goldmine" of species ranging from minute rodents and frogs to giant kangaroos. Once part of an ancient rainforest, the remote site now lies in arid grassland and Price said the fossilised...
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