AustroPalaeo
The original Antipodean lion
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
Tag: fossils
News
Tiny marsupial lion named after Sir David Attenborough
Researchers have uncovered fossil remains of an extinct flesh-eating marsupial lion that weighed about 600g and lived in the tree-tops.
Nature & Wildlife
The world’s biggest cuckoos once roamed the Nullarbor Plain
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.
News
Human impact and climate changed killed megafauna
New evidence has revealed climate change played a key role in the extinction of ancient megafauna, with human impact “tipping them over the edge”.
News
Remains of bizarre snail-eating marsupial found
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.
AG Society News
Attending the AG Society fossil dig against all odds
Despite her severe disability, Eleanor Beidatsch hopes to embark on an AGS expedition to the opal town of Lightning Ridge this August.
AustroPalaeo
Northern lights dinosaur was savage predator
An Australian palaeontologist has led the discovery of a new Velociraptor relative that lived within the Arctic Circle.
News
‘Big Bird’ ancestor discovered
Scientists have discovered a new ancient bird species, a distant relative of the duck, from which the world’s biggest-ever bird evolved.
AustroPalaeo
Fossil Factfile: Kronosaurus
This apex carnivore of Australia’s prehistoric Eromanga Sea is one of the world’s largest known marine reptiles.
AustroPalaeo
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.