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.
A 133 million-year-old fossil hints that dinosaurs had bigger brains than we’ve realised.
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.
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.
ASIDE FROM THE blue whale, which is thought to be the largest animal that has ever lived, many of today’s creatures are mere pygmies compared with what came before them in Earth’s prehistoric past. Australia’s first human inhabitants would have come face to face with some, such as Diprotodon, Megalania and Thylacoleo.
Scientists have unearthed fossils from an extinct human species that predates Homo floresiensis by more than half a million years.
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.