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Found: Oldest bilby and bandicoot fossils
Million-year-old fossils of Aussie icons found in archives of US university.
A bilby. Credit: Jacob Layocan / Getty Images.
A scientist from the Western Australian Museum has discovered the oldest known fossils of two iconic Australian animals – the bilby andthe bandicoot – which had been kept for decades at the University of Washington, US.
Both the bilby and the bandicoot are small, furry, rodent-like marsupials found on mainland Australia and – in the case of the bandicoot – Papua New Guinea and parts of Indonesia.
Three new fossil bandicoots named in the study. Credit: WA Museum.
Previously, the oldest bilby (
What led Japanese and Indonesians in Western Australia 100 years ago to spill blood in the Broome race riots Joseph Lam life@scmp.com Workers grade and sort mother-of-pearl shells at Broome, Western Australia, in 1953. The town, long a centre of the pearling industry, drew migrants from Japan and Southeast Asia, who several times came into conflict. Photo: Frank Hurley for National Library of Australia
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