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What is a fossil?

How are fossils formed?

Where are fossils found?

Determining the age of fossils

Geological time scale

Eras and periods

Further information

Geological Eras and Periods

The Quaternary

About 1.78 million years ago to the present.

Diprotodon.

Artist's impression of Diprotodon.

Artist: Artist Frey Mickelthwait.

Source: Museum Victoria.

Wooly Mammoth.

Woolly Mammoth.

Artist: Caroll.L. Fenton.

Source and copyright: Patricia Vickers-Rich.

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