In remote outback Queensland, new fossils are being unearthed 'every day', but it's not always palaeontologists who are making the most astonishing discoveries.
abc.net.au/news/rock-chicks-plesiosaur-fossil-palaeontology-discovery-outback/101755418When sisters Cassandra Prince and Cynthia Nicholls first pulled a rock-like object from the ground of their outback cattle property, they had no clue it was a 100-million-year-old fossil.
"What has really amazed us is the reaction … so many people wanted to know what was going on," Ms Nicholls said. Encompassing the towns of Hughenden, Richmond and Winton, researchers say this region was teeming with fish, turtles and large marine reptiles during the Cretaceous period, 145-66 million years ago.
"When the property owners are out mustering their sheep and cattle, spraying for weeds … that's how we find some stuff."
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