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The Mesozoic Era (252 - 66 million years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-mesozoic-era/The Mesozoic Era spanned 252 to 66 million years ago. Australia in the Mesozoic was nothing like it is today. It did not exist as a separate landmass, its position on the globe was much further south and the climate and plants were very different.
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The late Miocene Epoch (10.4-5 million years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-late-miocene-epoch/The late Miocene was a time of global drying and cooling. As ice rapidly accumulated at the poles, sea-levels fell, rainfall decreased and rainforests retreated. Many plant and animal groups died out and other forms, better adapted to a drying world, took their place.
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The Eocene Epoch (56-33.9 million years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-eocene-epoch/By the beginning of the Eocene, Gondwana had almost split apart, but Australia, Antarctica and South America remained joined. The Antarctic portion of Gondwana straddled the South Pole but because the global climate was warmer it was free of ice and snow.
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Types of metamorphism
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/types-of-metamorphism/There are several different types of metamorphism, including dynamic, contact, regional, and retrogressive metamorphism, that form and shape rocks.
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Common Fossils of the Sydney Basin
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/common-fossils-of-the-sydney-basin/The Sydney region, extending from Wollongong to Newcastle and Lithgow, is part of a large geological feature called the Sydney Basin.
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Freshwater habitats
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/wildlife-sydney/freshwater-habitats/Freshwater habitats are found throughout the Sydney region.
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1912 - Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ in England.
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/piltdown-man-skull/1912 - Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ in England.
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What is a marsupial?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-marsupial/A marsupial is born in a very incomplete state.
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What is a parasite?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-parasite/A parasite is an organism that lives on or in another organism, the host, and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.
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What is a carnivore?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-carnivore/A carnivore is an animal that feeds on other animals.
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