Newly Discovered Human-Sized Dinosaur Footprint Is The Largest Ever Found Australian researchers digging in the area known as “Australia’s Jurᴀssic Park” have found the world’s biggest dinosaur footprint yet to be discovered. According to their findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the University of Queensland and James Cook University paleontologists found 20 more …

Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago Australian Aborigines have long been cast as a people apart. Although Australia is halfway around the world from our species’ accepted birthplace in Africa, the continent is nevertheless home to some of the earliest undisputed signs of …

The Largest Dinosaur Footprint Ever Has Been Found in Australia’s ‘Jurᴀssic Park’ On a 25-kilometer (15.5-mile) stretch of coastline in Western Australia, there lies a prehistoric treasure trove. Thousands of approximately 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints are embedded in a stretch of land that can only be studied at low tide when the sea – and the …

Archaeological Sites Identified Off Australia’s Coast Researchers say the discovery of more stone artifacts at an underwater location in WA’s north has confirmed its status as Australia’s deepest known ancient Aboriginal site. In 2019, scientists from Flinders University discovered hundreds of ancient stone tools and grinding stones at the underwater site of Cape Bruguieres, off the Pilbara …

Archaeologists 3D map Red Lily Lagoon, the hidden Northern Territory landscape where first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago Archaeologists map Red Lily Lagoon, a hidden landscape in the Northern Territory where the first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago. Red Lily Lagoon in West Arnhem Land sits more than 40 kilometers inland, …

World’s oldest heart preserved in 380 million-year-old armored fish A team of Australian scientists has discovered the world’s oldest heart, part of the fossilized remains of an armored fish that died some 380 million years ago. The fish also had a fossilized stomach, liver, and intestine. All the organs were arranged much like similar organs …

Priceless archaeological artefacts found in Norfolk Island National Park by local citizen scientist An archaeological dig on Norfolk Island has uncovered two Polynesian adzes (stone axes) and hundreds of flakes dating back to the pre-European settlement. The adzes were used for woodworking and canoe building and form hard evidence of settlement on Norfolk Island by …

Mystery of Australia’s ‘Somerton Man’ solved after 70 years, researcher says In 1948, the body of a well-dressed man was found slumped on an Australian beach. A half-smoked cigarette was resting on his collar, and there was a line from a Persian poem in his pocket – but investigators had no idea who he was. …

Two-ton, 1,000-year-old ‘jars of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ’ baffle archaeologists The discovery of more than one hundred new stone “jars of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ” dating more than a thousand years ago has deepened Laos’ enduring archaeological enigma. The cup-like carved stones vary in size, ranging from 10ft (3m) in height and two tons in weight. Exactly how the …