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Twelve Apostles: Million-Year-Old Secrets Revealed
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Scientists have unveiled the age of the Twelve Apostles, iconic sea stacks off Australias Great Ocean Road, using tiny fossils and high-tech tools. The stacks, once thought to be around six million years old, are now dated between eight point six million and fourteen million years old. The research, published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, reveals the stacks as newborns in geological terms, carved out by wave erosion. The study also sheds light on the mid-Miocene era, when seas were high, plankton thrived, and Megalodon sharks ruled the waves.
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