Science & Environment
Behind the scenes: Walking with Dinosaurs
We go behind the scenes to see what it takes to make realistic animatronic dinosaurs come to life.
Tag: palaeontology
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Raging bushfires started 60 million years ago
Bushfires may have been a dominant feature of the Australian outback for much longer than experts thought.
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SE Asia’s oldest rock carving found by surprise
While searching for giant rat fossils, scientists have stumbled on the oldest rock carvings in southeast Asia.
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Aboriginal burn-off theory hosed down
Aboriginal Australians didn’t regularly use fire to manage the bush claims a new study, but experts aren’t convinced.
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Aussie carnivores were weird and wonderful
Traditionally thought of as “second-rate mammals”, marsupial carnivores were remarkably diverse, says a new study.
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Hunting was likely killer of giant marsupials
The extinction of Australia’s ‘megafauna’ was caused by long-term hunting, new research suggests.
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Prime Minister’s Science Prizes awarded
The top accolades for Aussie science are awarded for work on a fossil fish giving birth, cloned insulin and blood clotting.
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Fossil find challenges marsupial mole evolution
The discovery of a 20-million-year-old fossil suggests marsupial moles evolved in rainforests, not deserts.
Science & Environment
Discovering the dinosaurs Down Under
From killers of the freezing Antarctic wastes to titanic herbivores, Australian dinos are being dug up in great numbers.
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Carnivorous bilby fossil unearthed
An ancient predatory bilby has been discovered by Australian scientists.