The Queensland government has agreed with a petition to select an official state fossil,after one was suggested by the state’s dedicated dinosaur museum.
Considered one of the most significant dinosaur fossils in recent history,Australian scientists are helping to unlock the secrets of the Duelling Dinosaurs.
The Queensland Museum exhibition will feature dozens of specimens of ancient marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs,many from Queensland.
Researchers have shed light on a species of ancient marsupial related to wombats,but first the fossil itself had to be rediscovered in a drawer in New York.
After painstakingly gluing together more than 100 fossil fragments,Angeline Leece and Jesse Martin stood back and gazed in awe. What they saw would rewrite humanity's family tree.
Researchers have identified a new species of Australian dinosaur,with the find in regional Victoria also rewriting the history of the unusual species worldwide
A decade of discovery at a Queensland fossil site has uncovered a new species of giant kangaroo,and proof that climate changes killed megafauna,not humans.
New research has proved for the first time ancient humans adapted over time from eating fish to land-based animals as they made the long journey to Australia.