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Park guides scout red sediment for bones in caves
October 14, 2022

Lost Giants

Park guides scout sediment for bones in the Kelly Hill Caves on Kangaroo Island, one of the last places megafauna survived in Australia. The photo was taken on assignment for a story in the October 2010 issue about the vanishing giant animals.
Photograph by Amy Toensing, Nat Geo Image Collection

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