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About Alison Lloyd

Alison Lloyd is an Australian writer. She writes fiction and non-fiction. Her children's books are about China and Australia's past.

Alison Lloyd is now writing adult fiction too! Download a free story or find out more on her website for adults. Or see Alison's newsletter The Scroll

Alison grew up in Canberra. She was also lucky to live in Europe and Asia when she was a kid. She studied in China for two years - she was in that country when army tanks rolled onto the city streets, to put down the student movement in 1989.


Before she wrote books, Alison worked for the Australian Government, in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. But she has sworn, under the Official Secrets Act, not to tell everything that went on then...

Alison now lives in Melbourne with two kids, her husband and enough books to keep you reading for a hundred years.

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This fossil is almost a BILLION years old. It's the oldest fossil in Museum Victoria

 although it comes from the Northern Territory. You are looking at layers of ancient algae. Algae are a type of plant that includes seaweed and pond scum.  Once upon a time this algae lived on the floor of a shallow sea. (The rock is turned around in the photo. The bottom is on the right-hand side.) As sand settled over the top of the algae, it had to grow upwards, making the columns you can see in the picture. 

An Animal that never Pooed

 

The smaller, reddish rock is the remains of an animal that lived in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia when that was under the sea. At 600 million years old, it's the oldest animal in Museum Victoria - way, way before the dinosaurs. This animal has no mouth, no stomach and nowhere to poo. To eat, it soaked in microbes through its skin.  Scientists know it's an animal because it has left-right symmetry. Unlike plants, one side of us animals is close to a mirror image of the other. 

History Bytes podcast

Munch on sound-bites of history! Listen to bits of Alison Lloyd's books and more.

 

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