A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback – and now scientists know what caused it
Published: November 22, 2024
Driving through time
Find out what lived in the caves of the Mount Gambier region of South Australia through fossil discoveries
Published: April 18, 2024
Scientists barred from the ancient Koonalda Cave in South Australia following a dispute between Indigenous groups say it’s time for Premier Peter Malinauskas to step in and resolve the impasse.
Clare Buswell, the chair of the Conservation Commission of the Australian Speleological Federation, said that the conflict between “warring government agencies” administering various legislation had in effect left our understanding of the 40,000-year-old cave on the Nullarbor Plain stuck in the 1960s ........
CREDIT: Helen Trinca; EXCLUSIVE Published: The Australian 17 Feb 2025, page 6
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A report is being prepared as part of the process to have a cave system that could be two million years old added to the South Australian heritage register.
The Munro Karst system was provisionally added to the heritage list last year following the discovery of the caves in 2022.
Published: March 5, 2025
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