The chance discovery of a long-forgotten tray of fossils in the collections of the Australian Museum has highlighted a previously unknown “Age of Monotremes” that thrived while dinosaurs ruled the ...

"Central Australia was occupied by an inland sea ... pinks and greens — and in rare cases, form precious opalised fossil. "You've got this ridiculously, unexpected and rare situation," Jenni ...

Lightning Ridge has the greatest number and diversity of opalised fossils in Australia. It is one of the most productive and scientifically significant fossil sites in the country, and the only major ...

"Not only is it the largest fossilized spider to be found in Australia but it is the first fossil of the family Barychelidae ...