We spent 2 years in deep underground caves to bring this extraordinary fossil to light
theconversation.com
Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages.
  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Incredible find!

    I didn’t see in the article an explanation of how the bones fossilized. It seems like a terrible spot for that to occur, but I don’t really know much about the process. I assume the animal was buried in sediment at some point?