On This Day
On this day: Happy birthday Sir Doug Nicholls, Governor of South Australia
Yorta Yorta man, Sir Doug Nicholls was one of the most powerful voices for indigenous civil rights in Australia.
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Kunbarrasaurus is Australia’s new armoured dinosaur
The re-analysis of an incredibly preserved fossil shows Australia had a variety of armoured dinosaurs.
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Fossil Factfile: Procoptodon
The giant short-faced kangaroo must have made quite a thud as it bounded through the outback tens of thousands of years ago.
On This Day
On this day: The Melbourne Olympic Games open
Australia’s highest ever Olympic medal tally ranking was won the very first time it hosted, at the 1956 Melbourne Games.
On This Day
On this day: The birth of Qantas
In 1920, two Gallipoli veterans decided remote Australian communities needed an air service, and Qantas was born.
Creatura with Bec Crew
First look at the moustached kingfisher
The rare moustached kingfisher has been photographed for the first time amid a controversial expedition.
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The parrot, the poo and the parasitic flower
The study of fossilised dung has revealed a lost link between New Zealand’s kakapo and the parasitic Hades flower – one of the world’s weirdest blooms.
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New dinosaur is Australia’s largest carnivore
‘Lightning Claw’, a new dinosaur from northern NSW, is the biggest, baddest meat-eater yet found Down Under.
On This Day
On this day: Birth of Australia’s electronics inventor
Henry Sutton was an incredible Australian inventor, creating a wide range of products, including the forerunner to the television set
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AUDIO: Lightning Ridge dino dig
Last week palaeontologists and volunteer diggers were hard at work hunting fossils on our AGS Scientific Expedition.