{"id":736222,"date":"2022-09-27T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736222"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:20:03","slug":"study-finds-australian-caves-are-up-to-500000-years-older-than-we-thought-and-it-could-explain-a-megafauna-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736222","title":{"rendered":"Study finds Australian caves are up to 500,000 years older than we thought, and it could explain a megafauna mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia&#8217;s Naracoorte Caves is one of the world&#8217;s best fossil sites, containing a record spanning more than half a million years. Among the remains preserved in layers of sand are the bones of many iconic Australian megafauna species that became extinct between 48,000 and 37,000 years ago.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-australian-caves-years-older-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study finds Australian caves are up to 500,000 years older than we thought, and it could explain a megafauna mystery<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia&#8217;s Naracoorte Caves is one of the world&#8217;s best fossil sites, containing a record spanning more than half a million years. Among the remains preserved in layers of sand&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}