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Hydrosaurus lizards look like old-timey dinosaurs
Remember, back in the day, when all of our dinosaur toys looked like this beautifully posed Hydrosaurus lizard?
Tag: dinosaur
Science & Environment
The science behind Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Two scientists breakdown whether or not the science behind Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom stacks up.
News
Dinosaurs would still exist if the asteroid had landed almost anywhere else
Scientists have recently discovered that had the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs landed anywhere else on earth, it’s possible that they’d still be roaming around.
Wildlife
Western Australia is home to ‘Australia’s Jurassic Park’
A small stretch of coastline outside of Broome was once the stomping ground of hundreds of dinosaurs.
Wildlife
Lightning Ridge: opalised fossils
Lightning Ridge has the greatest number and diversity of opalised fossils in Australia. It is one of the most productive and scientifically significant fossil sites in the country, and the only major site in NSW with dinosaurs. Three Australian dinosaur species have been described from Lightning Ridge material, but there are many more dinosaur specimens in the AOC collection that have not yet been studied or named. Other fossils include: turtles, crocodiles, fish, birds, early mammals, mussels, snails, giant marine reptiles, pine cones, plant stems and seeds. The Australian Opal Centre has 4000 or more fossils in its collection, worth an estimated $3 million, but with Jenni and Elizabeth the only palaeontologists on site, much of it has yet to be studied.
News
A long lost excavation site has been rediscovered, new dino bones found
The rich excavation site was first found in the 1930s but scientists have struggled to re-locate it until now.
News
Oldest mushroom fossil discovered
Scientists were surprised to find that the mushroom fossil was preserved in limestone rather than amber.
AustroPalaeo
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.
Science & Environment
First dinosaur brain fossil suggests they may have been smarter than we thought
A 133 million-year-old fossil hints that dinosaurs had bigger brains than we’ve realised.
AustroPalaeo
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.