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In Australia, the Finke River Has Been Following the Same Route for 300 to 400 Million Years, Well Before the Mountains or Dinosaurs.

Before the first reptiles, a stream was already digging its bed in central Australia. The Finke River has been tracking the same meanders for three to four hundred million years. A few days a year, its ephemeral floods awaken a river older than most of the world's mountains. A river anterior to the mountains it crosses The river takes its spring in the MacDonnell Ranges, in the Australian Northern Territory, and descends for 600 to 750 kilometre…
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Before the first reptiles, a stream was already digging its bed in central Australia. The Finke River has been tracking the same meanders for three to four hundred million years. A few days a year, its ephemeral floods awaken a river older than most of the world's mountains. A river anterior to the mountains it crosses The river takes its spring in the MacDonnell Ranges, in the Australian Northern Territory, and descends for 600 to 750 kilometre…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Saturday, May 9, 2026.
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