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Australia, dinosaurs and Fossils Reveal

Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120 million years ago, new fossils show

Between 122 and 108 million years ago, the Australian landmass was much farther south than today. Victoria was positioned within the Antarctic Circle, separated from Tasmania by a vast rift valley rather than open sea.

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Ancient Australia Had a Dinosaur Predator Ecosystem Unlike Anything Else on Earth

About 120 million years ago, Victoria, Australia, was a land of endless winter. The southern coast was a frigid river valley, its banks lined with pine trees and its waters teeming with fish. Dinosaurs roamed this icy world,

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Ancient Fossils Reveal A Surprising Truth About Australian Dinosaurs

This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs dominated the landscape. We still find traces of these animals in Victoria's fossil record. Most of the dinosaur fossils found in Victoria belong to small plant-eaters called ornithopods.

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Distressed koalas prompt desperate plea from animal hospital

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Koala hospital’s desperate plea to save distressed animals. But Southern Koala and Echidna Rescue operations manager Mish Simpson said this is not normal koala behaviour. “The ...

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Researchers rediscovered a spiky, beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough that hasn't been seen for 60 years and was thought to be extinct

The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

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Echidna genome study unravels the events leading to multiple sex chromosomes

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called "monotremes" (with the platypus as the other prominent ...

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There's nothing quite as uplifting as a magpie's warbling

Four decades in the media, working in print and television. Formerly editor of the South Coast Register and Milton Ulladulla ...

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