Fossil shorebirds reveal Australia's ancient wetlands lost to climate change

Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the ...

Strange Red Rocks in Australia Are Challenging Long-Held Ideas About Fossils

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where ...
CNN

New research upends theory that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals to extinction

Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, ...
Live Science

Australia's 'upside down' dinosaur age had two giant predators, 120 million-year-old fossils reveal

A new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous. When you purchase ...
The Conversation

Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120 million years ago, new fossils show

Jake Kotevski receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Stipend and Monash University - Museums Victoria scholarship. Stephen Poropat received funding from the Winston Churchill ...
Ars Technica

The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...
The Conversation

Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites

Tara Djokic and co-authors received funding for this research from the Etheridge family descendants; Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum Trust; and Australian Research Council (ARC ...