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5 top spots to fossick for opals
The opal fields of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia are spots to fossick for hard-won flecks of treasure and explore fascinating history.
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VIDEO: On the trail of dinosaurs in Mongolia
In September 2016 eight Australians and ten Mongolians set out into the remote Gobi Desert to hunt for dinosaurs.
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Rock shelter provides earliest evidence of humans in the outback
Aboriginal people were already living in Australia’s interior 49,000 years ago, according to an incredible series of new archaeological discoveries.
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All that glitters: the fossils of Lightning Ridge
Digging for opalised fossils at Lightning Ridge offers a chance to be involved in real science and get a taste for the toils of an opal miner.
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Huge new dinosaur hints at when sauropods arrived Down Under
Twenty-tonne Savannasaurus from western Queensland brings the number of named Australian sauropods to five.
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EVENT: Weird Dinosaurs book launch
Enjoy an evening of thrilling dinosaur revelations with John Pickrell fossil enthusiast and editor of Australian Geographic.
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The original Antipodean lion
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
On This Day
Centenary of the Battle of Fromelles
It’s been 100 years since the darkest day in Australian military history, which saw the most casualties in 24 hours of any Australian battle.
Need To Know with Dr Karl
Killer heat waves
Dr Karl investigates the growing global trend of heat waves, which have killed more Australians than all other natural disasters combined.
Need To Know with Dr Karl
The thorny devil lizard’s drinking habits
How the thorny devil takes “flat out like a lizard drinking” to the extreme.