A fossil hunter made the discovery of a lifetime that came at an almost impossible price,but it had a sweet ending.
Nature had already reclaimed the fossil site once,burying it beneath layers of sand. If the crew failed this time,they would have to wait another year to try again.
As a Brisbane schoolboy,Bruce Runnegar unearthed a fossil in a suburban quarry. He kept it for 68 years,taking it with him all over the world,never imagining he was carrying something 230 million years old.
Australia is pitching its oversized megafauna as its latest “dangerous” tourist attraction.
The bone-crushing fossilised jaws were one of three Tasmanian tiger ancestors uncovered by palaeontologists,amid a contentious effort to resurrect the marsupial carnivore.
Two new species that ruled the ancient oceans as crocodile-sized apex predators have been uncovered in NSW.
A billionaire hedge fund founder has splashed around nine times Sotheby’s presale estimate for a stegosaurus skeleton,making it the most valuable fossil sold at an auction.
Scientists led by Tim Flannery have unearthed evidence for a previously unknown “age of monotremes” when egg-laying mammals dominated Australia.
They were shrewd,complex and creative,and we shared the planet with them (and other types of humans) for thousands of years. So why did the Neanderthals die out and not us?
A recently discovered fossil in Germany pushes the origin of cloning sea stars back more than 150 million years in first-ever evidence for the phenomenon.