1+ day, 58+ min ago  (730+ words) Megalibgwilia owenii was an extinct giant echidna that lived during the Ice Age. (Supplied: Museums Victoria/Chris Edser) Researchers have used a fossil found in a Gippsland cave 119 years ago to show that giant echidnas lived in Victoria during the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (985+ words) The last known thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, died in captivity in 1936. (Supplied: NFSA) A palaeontology research team from Flinders University has uncovered a series of ancient footprints along the Eyre Peninsula coastline, indicating thylacines once existed on the South Australian…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (634+ words) Stephen Zozaya with Varanus umbra, the newly described orange-headed rock monitor. (Supplied: Stephen Zozaya) Three new species of rock monitor lizards previously unknown to science have been formally described in Far North Queensland. They are the first rock monitors known…...

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1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (501+ words) Artist's reconstruction of Aphaneramma " a crocodile-like predator " from fossils found in WA's Kimberley. (Supplied: Pollyanna von Knorring) The chance rediscovery of fossil specimens first found in WA's Kimberley in the 1960s has shed new light on an ancient predator. Palaeontologists have…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (724+ words) Dendrochronology involves the use of drills to look at the growth rings in trees. (Supplied: DCCEEW) A study provides a record of how a changing climate has shaped the Gwydir Wetlands over centuries." The oldest tree discovered on the site…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (508+ words) Alan Evered, 92, has been volunteering at the dig site. (Supplied: Wendy White) More than 60 dinosaur bones have been unearthed from rocks at the site of a fossil dig on Victoria's Bass Coast." The region is renowned for its rich cache…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (854+ words) Volunteers were given power tools to clean the 100-million-year-old fossil." (ABC Western Qld: Jay Carstens) People have travelled from across the country and the world to work on a 100-million-year-old fossil. A recent cancer survivor who drove solo from Western…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1080+ words) Greenland sharks can live for up to 400 years " so it's possible that some sharks alive today may have been born before the British colonised Australia. (Wikimedia: Hemming1952, Greenland shark, CC BY SA 4. 0) Swimming at a crawl with cloudy eyes and mottled…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1736+ words) Mutthi Mutthi woman Tanya Charles says Mungo Lady put her hand up and rewrote the "big story" of Australia. (ABC News: Margaret Burin) Tanya Charles says her ancestors' history may not be written down in books, but it is written…...