Wonambi Fossil Centre - A Virtual Tour
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Take a step back in time...
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| The Wonambi Fossil Centre |
The Wonambi Fossil Centre offers visitors the opportunity to 'step back in time' and discover what Naracoorte was like over 200,000 years ago.
Scientists have been studying the fossils of the Naracoorte Caves for over 30 years.
Their research has allowed the ancient animals and their habitats to be reconstructed.
The Centre contains fossil displays and a walk-through diorama with life-sized models of extinct animals in their ancient habitats. The interpretive centre also illustrates how the caves have acted as pitfall traps, dens and roosts for more than 500,000 years, leading to the vast accumulation of skeletal remains of reptiles, birds and mammals.
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Entrance foyer of the Wonambi Fossil
Centre, with
Procoptodon goliah
on right
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Visitors examine a model of
Zygomaturus trilobus
in the walk-through reconstruction of long-ago Naracoorte
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The story of how scientists use the fossils to unravel the past is presented in the Flinders University Gallery in the Centre.
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The centre was named after
Wonambi naracoortensis,
in turn named for the Aboriginal giant rainbow serpents
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The Flinders University Gallery outlines the development of the caves, and the excavation of the fossils
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After you leave the centre, follow the interpretive walking trail to Wet Cave, one of several trails at the park
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