Australia doesn’t have any ‘kill sites’. In fact, there’s no hard evidence people hunted the megafauna.
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Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.
For 135 years, there’s been just a single species belonging to this group. Now, a second has been discovered in western Queensland.
Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages.
Millions of years ago, widespread volcano eruptions in eastern Australia buried entire forests. Today, these time capsules reveal stunningly fossilised plants.
For decades, the sandstone in central Australia yielded tantalising segments of some sort of fossil fish. Now, we have finally pieced together a complete picture of this remarkable species.
Digital scanning offers a new window on Australia’s unique fossil history, from early multicellular lifeforms to gigantic ‘marsupial lions’.
At twice the size of a wedge-tailed eagle, the newly discovered Dynatoaetus gaffae would have competed with thylacines and Tasmanian devils for prey.
Gunggamarandu maunala is the first Australian croc discovered from a group called the tomistomines. And its prehistoric presence in modern-day Queensland means there could be more discoveries to come.
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Researcher, Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Associate Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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PhD; Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Departmental Visitor, Materials Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University
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Scientific Officer, Palaeontology, Australian Museum; UNSW
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Collections Manager (Palaeontology), Western Australian Museum
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Professor, Palaeontology, Griffith University
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Professor, Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW