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

suggests that Australia’s dinosaur fauna played a vital role in the larger Gondwanan ecosystem. “The findings not only expand Australia’s theropod fossil record but offer compelling evidence ...

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Litoria tylerantiqua, a 55-million-year-old fossil, is Australia’s oldest known tree frog. It shifts the timeline for frog ...

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 ...

Damien Boschetto found a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in France -- an extremely rare discovery -- while walking his ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem ...

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 ...