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Giant eagles and scavenging vultures shared the skies of ancient Australia

New fossils reveal Australia was once home to a much greater diversity of huge eagles and vultures, which died off alongside ‘giant wombats’ and ‘marsupial lions’. ....

The Green , New South Wales , South Australia , Megalania Varanus , Naracoorte Caves , Green Waterhole , Fossil Cave , Late Pleistocene , Australian Birds , Australian Megafauna , Birds Of Prey , Extinct Birds , Egafaunal Extinction ,

Meet the biggest and most bizarre skink ever found in Australia. It became extinct 47,000 years ago

Researchers have found an armoured fossil skink 1,000 times heavier than the ones in your garden. Its closest living relative is the shingleback lizard. ....

New Zealand General , New Zealand , New South Wales , Flinders University , South Australia , Murray River , Proceedings Of The Royal Society , Queensland Museum , Wellington Caves , Cathedral Cave , South Australian , New South , First Peoples , Australian Megafauna , Extinct Animals , Australian Animals ,

A new virtual museum reveals 600 million years of Australian fossils in unprecedented 3D detail

Digital scanning offers a new window on Australia’s unique fossil history, from early multicellular lifeforms to gigantic ‘marsupial lions’. ....

Flinders University , South Australia , Charles Lyell , Georges Cuvier , Australian Museum , Virtual Australian Museum Of Palaeontology , Virtual Australian Museum , First Nations , South Australian Museum , Western Australian Museum , Art Gallery , 3d Modelling , 3d Scanning , Australian Fossils , Australian Megafauna , Ct Scans , Xtinct Marsupials ,

Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago

Having special foot adaptations helped these sizeable animals wander long distances, which meant a better chance to find plentiful food and water. ....

Flinders University , South Australia , Royal Society Open Science , Warburton River , Australian Wildlife Conservancy , Kalamurina Station , Ice Age , Australian Megafauna ,

"Examining sediment infill dynamics at Naracoorte cave megafauna sites " by L. J. Arnold, M. Demuro et al.

Relatively little is known about the long-term sediment accumulation dynamics of Naracoorte Cave Complex (NCC) solution pipe cavities, and many of the megafauna-bearing infill deposits at this globally significant Australian Pleistocene fossil locality remain partially dated or lack any numerical age control. In this study, we assess the suitability of three different luminescence dating signals for improving existing chronologies at six Late and Middle Pleistocene NCC sites (n = 22 samples), and we undertake multi-site examinations of NCC sediment infill dynamics spanning the last 550 thousand years (ka). Modern analogue samples collected from above and beneath two active cave entrances confirm that single-grain OSL, single-grain TT-OSL and multi-grain pIR-IRSL signals can be reset down to insignificant residual levels (<10−1–100 Gy) when compared with the natural dose ranges of interest for most NCC palaeontological applications. Replicate luminescence dating comparisons perfo ....

South Australia , Naracoorte Cave Complex , Australian Pleistocene , Middle Pleistocene , Late Pleistocene , Smoke Tortoise Cave , Australian Megafauna , Naracoorte Caves , Ost Ir Irsl , Ingle Grain Osl , Ingle Grain Tt Osl ,