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Fossils show Tasmanian devils scavenged human camps in WA's Pilbara 45,000 years ago

Coverage flags Rio Tinto link and tentative older dating

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A later post ties the find explicitly back to the Juukan 2 shelter Rio Tinto destroyed in 2020 and notes the study's authors call the older, ~45,000-year-old identification tentative.

Coverage flags Rio Tinto link and tentative older dating
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“Two Tasmanian devil specimens came out of Juukan 2, the Pilbara rock shelter Rio Tinto blew up in 2020... the first direct evidence devils ever lived in that part of Australia, though the authors call the older identification tentative”

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Timothy Churchill Paleontologist and zooarchaeologist, University of New South WalesGavin Ashburton Researcher, PKKP Aboriginal CorporationPKKP Aboriginal Corporation Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Aboriginal CorporationRio Tinto Mining company

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