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1988
A group of year 9 students on an excursion to the waste
management facility discovered a sink hole, beside which
were the rotting remains of a giant creature, like none
had seen before.
1990 - 1991
Waste station workers discovered corpses of rotting
unidentifiable creature. Pictures were taken. The site
and the area was cordoned off.
1995
The University of QLD and CSIRO sent a team to investigate
the sinkholes, and the plausibility of uncataloged animals.
August 1995
a system of underground tunnels, leading to a large
subterranean cavern was found. Shut off for millennia,
a fully self-contained eco-system had evolved with entirely
new orders of fauna and flora.
The large creatures described in earlier accounts were
found in abudance. After further observation, their
apparent death on leaving the cave system was found
to be due to a lack of breathable atmosphere. The flora
and fauna had evolved to breathe methane.
1995-2001
Subsequent expeditions were mounted to fully map and
catalogue the cave system and its inhabitants. The creatures
had been living underground for millennia. The siting
of a waste station over the cavern had leached contaminants
which created tetrogenic mutations, increasing their
proportions from insect-sized to elephant-sized. Tools,
writing, art, and architecture of an extinct society
of sentient marsupial mice were also found. No clear
correlation between their extinction and the forced
evolution of the larger creatures has been found.
2005
The area was capped off permanently to preserve the
hidden world for future generations.
2007
A play area based on the hidden world discoveries is
built on the site, to showcase what was found including
life-size representations of some of the creatures,
primarily the original discovery (sand worm).
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