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As if to prove the point, on the way to Waterfall Blu he shifts a few wind-dropped branches o the track. At a lookout point, h ...

62 A G Abrupt edge. An aerial shot of the Cape Pillar peninsula showcases this spectacular coastline. Rock for ...

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64 A G good news for piscivorous species. “In February and March we get a lot of bait fish active,” Yani says. ...

S–O 2014 65 Tasmania’s spiky shrubs, including bearded heath, prickly moses and dagger needlebush. Near the juncti ...

66 A G AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC thanks Matt Gee, Mark Johnston, Island Workshop; Ben Clark, Phil Duggan, Wanita W ...

September–October 2014 67 Sheer drop. Cape Raoul is on the western coast of Tasman NP and will be accessible via the Three Capes ...

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September–October 2014 69 A series of clever studies has painted prehistoric worlds with unexpected splashes of colour. For the ...

70 Australian Geographic Food on the fl y. Four-winged fl yer Microraptor was a contemporary of Cretaceous-era birds and is like ...

S–O 2014 71 Shaped something like a fat dolphin, this 7m-long air breather is highly adapted to life in the oceans ...

72 Australian Geographic I N THE 1990s, any book, teacher or scientist would have told you we’d never be able to tell anything a ...

September–October 2014 73 and round the tail – and so they would have had only a limited function in thermoregulation [maintaini ...

FOSSILS, FEATHER AND SEM IMAGES: IVPP, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL; ILLUSTRATION: LIDA XING; FOSSIL FEATHER: MUSEUM VICTORIA Melanosom ...

ILLUSTRATION: LIDA XING; FOSSIL FEATHER: MUSEUM VICTORIA September–October 2014 75 The majority of the 40-odd species of known f ...

76 Australian Geographic WATCH Use the free viewa app to scan this page and see a video about how new techniques were used to de ...

September–October 2014 77 Her research indicated that melanosomes shrink during fos- silisation, which might aff ect their shape ...

78 Australian Geographic the pigments wrapped up inside them, and also through their stacking and organisation, which interferes ...

Written in stone. Crow-sized Microraptor was the fi rst four- winged dinosaur discovered, in Hundreds of exquisitely preserved ...

Still waters. Below the calm surface of the Wenlock River is Australia’s richest fi sh fauna; the water body is home to the enda ...