This scene -- from a mini-sheet of postage stamps featuring Australian dinosaurs-- shows some of the warm-blooded dinosaurs that thrived in the Dinosaur Cove area under the polar weather conditions that prevailed during the Early Cretaceous (100 - 125 million years ago). (Original artwork by Peter Trusler; reproduced with permission of the Australia Post.)

"Polar dinosaurs in Australia?"

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