“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, scientists have re-created the habitat of "polar dinosaurs," using these ...

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These records are a critical window into the Jurassic period in Australia, when “the most common dinosaur fossils are footprints, by several orders of magnitude,” Romilio said. For now ...

A boulder at a school in Queensland, Australia, contains dozens of dinosaur footprints. University of Queensland Skeletal fossils from dinosaurs with these types of feet indicate that they were ...

Dinosaur footprints discovered on a boulder outside a school in Queensland, Australia. (University of Queensland) “They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself,” said Romilio ...