What Scientists Keep Finding in the Daintree Has Shocked the Entire World

The Daintree is the oldest surviving tropical rainforest on Earth, dating back approximately 180 million years and predating the Amazon by over a hundred million. It survived multiple ice ages, the breakup of Gondwana, and mass extinctions that wiped out rainforest everywhere else on the continent. The Eastern Kuku Yalanji people have lived inside this exact forest for an estimated 50,000 years, the only Aboriginal group known to permanently inhabit a tropical rainforest anywhere in Australia. In 2021, the land was finally returned to their ownership. This is what scientists keep finding inside one of the most extraordinary ecosystems left on the planet.

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