Go west and you will see not merely sublime sunsets but the stars gathering at twilight, heralding that nightly extravaganza when the sky becomes a dark canyon littered with white diamonds.

The opalised tooth of a gigantic, prehistoric marine reptile is being donated to the SA Museum, decades after it was first unearthed at Coober Pedy. Sophia and John Provatidis of Majestic Opals mined ...

FOSSILISED remains of an armoured dinosaur have been unearthed on a cattle property in northwestern Queensland. Volunteer diggers from Hughenden's Kronosaurus Korner have unearthed the remains of an ...

Over 100 million years ago, long before the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, there lived a group of massive clams called Inoceramus. With some species having shells up to 6.5 feet wide, they ...

After two years of examinations, paleontologists confirmed the pearl's scientific value, calling it 'an incredibly rare and priceless find'. The Kronosaurus Korner Museum in Richmond, Queensland, ...

"That upside down heart shape," says guide Montana, her laser pointer dancing on the stone, "that's the back right foot of an adult sauropod." The Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum near Winton.

Kronosaurus queenslandicus, a massive marine reptile, dominated the Eromanga Sea millions of years ago. Its powerful jaws, with a bite force exceeding that of modern crocodiles, crushed shells and ...

Initially he thought the objects were fossilised mussel shells, but on closer inspection he realised he had found something far more impressive. “I jumped out of my buggy and cast my eyes upon these ...

New Curtin University-led research has identified 100-million-year-old fossilised bones discovered in western Queensland as belonging to a newly identified species of pterosaur, which was a formidable ...

(CNN) — An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator ...

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