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Palaeontologists uncover mystery of marsupial lion bones in Wellington Caves excavation

A palaeontologist from Flinders University extracts the lower jaw of Thylacoleo carnifex. (Supplied: Diana Fusco)

Palaeontologists have solved a 200-year-old mystery about how the bones of ancient marsupial lions ended up inside the Wellington Caves of central western New South Wales.

Europeans first found a rich collection of vertebrate fossils at the site in the 1820s, raising questions about how they ended up there.

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