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Brain structure of Tasmanian tiger revealed
Scans of thylacine brains from museum collections hint at areas of cortex involved in complex predatory behaviour.
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Busting a botanical myth
The NT’s Palm Valley was long thought to have been a surviving relict of Australia’s prehistoric rainforests, but we now know its trees arrived much more recently with Aboriginal horticulturalists.
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Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber
The discovery in Myanmar of the fluffy tail of a little dinosaur perfectly preserved in amber has stunned scientists.
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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.
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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.