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WA Museum project provides virtual field trip beneath the prehistoric Nullarbor

In a WA Museum first, people will be able to follow virtually the action of a real scientific field expedition into the many caves beneath the Nullarbor Plain.

Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said people will have unprecedented access to website streams of video footage, interviews and blogs allowing them to see a scientific field trip as it happens.

“This is a case of science and technology coming together to tell the story of prehistoric Australia,” Mr Day said.

“The caves beneath the Nullarbor are littered with the fossil bones of Australia’s unique megafauna that lived in our prehistoric past, including oversized kangaroos and wombats and ferocious marsupial lions.

Read full ministerial statement.

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