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A lost world: Ancient cave reveals million-year-old wildlife

4mon 18d ago by lemmy.zip/u/Salamence in palaeontology@mander.xyz from phys.org

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7487509

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/23531

Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's North Island, the first time a large number of million-year-old fossils have been found—including an ancestor of the large flightless Kākāpō parrot.


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It never occurred to me until I read this headline, but I feel like the word "wildlife" implies that there also exists domesticated life.