On many continents during the last ice age, typically from about 50,000 to 12,000 years ago, species of megafauna that had lived there for hundreds of thousands of years became extinct. Comparatively ...

An unusual bone had been found on the shore of Lake Colongulac, near Camperdown. The creature it belonged to must have been gigantic; the fragment of leg suggested the animal’s knee joint had a ...

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A constant in the stories of the bunyip is the role of Aboriginal storytelling & culture. Originating in the stories and beliefs of the southeastern Indigenous peoples of Australia, accounts of the ...

Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga ...