Naracoorte Caves Research Paper

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The Naracoorte Caves National Park is the only World Heritage fossil site in South Australia. It is one of the world’s most important fossil sites, preserving the bones of many megafauna that have become extinct around 40,000 years now. The Naracoorte caves has preserved the most complete marsupial fossil record for this period of time. The caves have acted as a pitiful trap and an owl roosting site of animals, where they are collected and preserved around the a cave for 500,000 years.

The Naracoorte caves contain Australia's largest and best preserved Pleistocene fossil vertebrates. This contributes to Australia's wild ware history which also assists in creating a better understanding of the Pleistocene period. This era was a time where

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