Australia, land of kangaroos and koalas, today reveals an unsuspected prehistoric past. Fossils of theropod dinosaurs, ...

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in ...

Between 122 and 108 million years ago, the Australian landmass was much farther south than today. Victoria was positioned ...

Australia is in the midst of an incredible “dinosaur boom” as record numbers of farmers unearth ancient dinosaur bones that send tourists flocking to their rural properties. Up until the 21st Century, ...

Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary history and hierarchy of predators on the continent. The research, published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Runnegar with the fossil he found while visiting a quarry with school friends in 1958. In 1958, an Australian teenager named ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of dinosaur footprints embedded in a boulder were found hiding in plain sight at a school in Australia, according to ...

A new understanding of how to search for ancient remains has reinvigorated a region of western Queensland, with tourists flocking to paleontological digs. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Winton, ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may ...