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Fossil File
Fossil File
Footprints in Time
By John Long
Tetrapod trackways are helping to decode the behaviour of these Devonian creatures.
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Fossil Sites Can Co-exist with Ecotourists
By John Long
Palaeo-ecotours could generate income for research and conservation at fossil sites.
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The Best of Australian Palaeontology on Show
By John Long
The public is welcome to attend one of Australia’s largest palaeontology conferences.
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The Heart of a Good Fossil
By John Long
Palaeontologists have found their Holy Grail: the fossilied heart of a Cretacean fish.
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When Will Australia Get Its First Real Mounted Dinosaur?
By John Long
Australian museums don’t display any dinosaurs mounted from real bones into a life-like position.
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The Rise of High-Tech Palaeontology
By John Long
High-tech scanners now enable palaeontologists to gain new insights from significant fossils embedded in solid rock.
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Solving the Mysteries of the Australian Megafauna
A skeleton of Diprotodon, Australia’s largest ever living land mammal, exposed at Lake Callabonna in South Australia. Credit: Aaron Camens, Flinders University
Two new papers have narrowed the date of Australia’s megafauna extinctions as well as the cause of their demise.
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Delving into Dinosaur Body Temperatures
By John Long
New research finds that the dinosaur ancestors of birds had quite high body temperatures.
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A New Cause for Three Global Mass Extinction Events
By John Long
Dangerously lows levels of trace elements might be implicated in three mass extinctions.
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Reflection on the Discovery of a New Fossil Human Species
By John Long
The discovery of a new ancient human is a reminder about how much we’ve modified the planet.
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