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.
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.
17 days digging for dinosaurs in Argentina with the Australian Geographic editor.
Twenty-tonne Savannasaurus from western Queensland brings the number of named Australian sauropods to five.
Enjoy an evening of thrilling dinosaur revelations with John Pickrell fossil enthusiast and editor of Australian Geographic.
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
Researchers have uncovered fossil remains of an extinct flesh-eating marsupial lion that weighed about 600g and lived in the tree-tops.
The Nullarbor is an arid, treeless expanse today. But several hundred thousand years ago it was home to a menagerie of species, including two newly discovered giant cuckoo-like birds.
New evidence has revealed climate change played a key role in the extinction of ancient megafauna, with human impact “tipping them over the edge”.
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.
Despite her severe disability, Eleanor Beidatsch hopes to embark on an AGS expedition to the opal town of Lightning Ridge this August.