G'day! ABC science reporter Jacinta Bowler in the newsletter hot seat.
 

This week, I wanted to highlight something a bit different.
 

ABC Story Lab has just released an incredible project that highlights dozens of First Nations stories from across the country.
 

There's a Dreaming story of how the Great Barrier Reef was created, the role of ancient stone tools in the Pilbara, and the time that Port Phillip Bay was dry.
 

I'd recommend checking out the whole thing here — it's a great resource of Indigenous knowledge that can help us understand the country we live on today.
 

One thing that both the Deep Time project and the Science team has examined this week is how Australia's first people and long dead giant megafauna overlapped each other for thousands of years!
 

Unfortunately the fossil record — as my colleague Peter de Kruijff wrote — is limited in showing us what kinds of species may have been hunted or interacted with for other purposes.
 

He's been looking at an old leg bone that has big implications for whether ancient mega fauna was killed by humans.
 

In other news, science reporter Ellen Phiddian reported on human-made bat boxes which fare extremely poorly in the heat.
 

And the last What the Duck?! episode on mushrooms is out! Find out if fungi is, in fact, your future.
 

Finally, I'm popping in another plug for the Darren Osborne Regional Science Cadet position — please share with your networks!
 

And that's it for this week. But if you have something to share, like a scientific thought or a photo, send us an email.
 

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