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The desert is an ocean

The desert is an ocean, with its life underground.  And a perfect disguise above.

In the arid heart of Australia, in the Central Tablelands of NSW, paleontologists have found new evidence of an abundance of life.

A new fossil site that can most aptly be described as “exceptional” has turned up fossils of spiders, insects, fish, plants and even a bird feather, dating to the Miocene 11 to 16 million years ago.

And you’ll be surprised to discover what this scorched location was once like.

(Image courtesy of Michael Frese)

Read more here courtesy of ScienceAlert.com

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