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...Louvre could be said to house some nice paintings. Riversleigh has since provided an annual bounty of exquisitely preserved bones and teeth, the remains of creatures - fish, frogs, crocodiles, turtles, snakes, birds, marsupials, bats - that lived anywhere up to 25 million years ago, when Riversleigh was a thriving rainforest in a cooler, wetter (and more southern) Australia. In so doing, the site has filled in what were once gaping holes in our understanding of the origins of modern Australian fauna. "Only in one or two places on the surface of our planet, in the course of the last three thousand...
...about the size of a master bedroom. Areas that were once caves, pools, streams or lakes give up the best fossils. Countless beasts came to rest in such places, either washed into them after death or seized by predators while drinking. The secret of Riversleigh was its biodiverse rainforest and waters rich in dissolved limestone, which entombed the bones in new layers of rock, sealing them for eons until the palaeontologists came along...
...listen to the scrub." Wind roars in the canopy above and the sullen Tasmanian winter sky threatens rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base of a rough limestone bluff, half-hidden by the immense arching fronds of tree ferns, a dark cave mouth gapes crookedly, big enough to admit a man almost upright. But Shaw, the head of the Tasmanian...
...While taking an hour long shower, do not convert the bathroom into your own personal rainforest, complete with floating clouds of mists and flowing rivers. Other people will need to come in after you and they probably would like to actually be able to see themselves in the mirror. The note you left in the steam explaining that you’re “hot, hot, hot!” is not useful when someone is attempting to apply makeup...
...governments of Indonesia and Malaysia are trying to help preserve orangutan habitats by sending in police patrols, according to Knott. However, illegal logging still runs rampant as “logger bosses” encroach away from rivers’ edges and cut increasingly into the rainforest...