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G. newtoni was about 7 feet (2 meters) tall and weighed up to 529 pounds (240 kilograms). It belonged to the family Dromornithidae, a group of flightless birds known from fossils found in Australia.
The ghost of both of these is evident from the fossils found in the area," said Adele Pentland, a doctoral student in paleontology at Curtin University in Australia and lead author of the study ...
Fossils discovered in Australia reveal hundreds of new species, a pollen-covered insect, parasitic larva, and fish with last meals in their stomachs.
As one of the first fossil crocodilians to be recognized from Australia, Quinkana has a long history. Some of the earliest fossil finds now attributed to this genus date as far back as 1886, when Charles Walter De Vis found a variety of fossil bones, including those of Quinkana, in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, which he informally dubbed Pallimnarchus pollens (now considered to be a ...
Some of the fossils at Riversleigh are 25 million years old. [6] High concentrations of calcium carbonate have meant the fossils are extremely well preserved. [6] The fossil collection reveals mammalian evolution across more than 20 million years. [3] Fossils have been found in more than 200 individual locations. [4]
The Talbragar fossil site is a paleontological site of Late Jurassic age in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. It lies about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-east of the town of Gulgong, and 300 kilometres (190 mi) north-west of Sydney. The site has been known for over a century during which it has been extensively excavated to the ...
The first evidence of marsupials in Australia comes from the Tertiary, and was found at a 55-million-year-old fossil site at Murgon, near Kingaroy in southern Queensland. The Murgon fossil site has yielded a range of marsupial fossils, many with strong South American connections — unsurprising since the two continents were both a part of ...
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