Scientists have discovered a mini eco-system full of strange creatures in a remote territory of Australia. The ‘lost world’, as scientists are calling it, is believed to have remained undisturbed for millions of years.

The discovery was made by Dr. Conrad Hoskin, of James Cook University, and Dr. Tim Laman, from Harvard University, who led a four-day expedition to the Cape Melville area of Australia, a region that he had been aware of for a decade but had previously only viewed from above. Their destination was a remote place situated on top of a high plateau measuring 1.8miles (2.9km) by 1.8 miles, and forms part of a larger range of mountains which extends for about nine miles (14.4km) and is around 3 miles (4.8km) across.
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It has been known since the discovery of Neanderthal burials in Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq that they buried their dead with love and honor, and now it has been discovered that modern human were also doing this. The Neanderthal burials date from 60,000 years ago, and the recently discovered modern human remains, buried on a bed of flowers, date from 15,000 years.
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Some of the earliest settlers of America may have come fromAustralia, southern Asia, and the Pacific, instead of overthe Bering ice bridge (which no longer exists) from Siberia.Ancient bones 12,000 years old have long and narrow headsthat are very different from the short, broad skulls oftoday’s Native Americans, who trace their origins from thenorth. This means that present-day Indians were not thefirst people here.

In bbcnews.com, Paul Rincon quotes archeologist SilviaGonzalez as saying, “They appear more similar to southernAsians, Australians and populations of the South Pacific Rimthan they do to northern Asians. We think there were severalmigration waves into the Americas at different times bydifferent human groups.”
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