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Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land with terrifying megafauna: ...

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Beneath a remote stretch of Australia's Northern Territory, researchers found something unexpected swimming in shallow underground pools: at least 80 translucent crustaceans belonging to a species ...

The endangered nabarlek is not easy to find and difficult to distinguish from similar species. But a research team made new detections of the animals that offer “good news for their long-term survival ...

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