WA Aboriginal site near Rio Tinto mine more than 50,000 years old, a new study reveals An Aboriginal sacred place located 65 metres from a land bridge used by Rio Tinto to haul iron ore is at least 50,000 years old, with new research finding evidence of occupation during the height of the last ice …

Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied The remains of 108 Aboriginal people who died about 42,000 years ago will be reburied in outback Australia, years after they were first dug up without permission. These include the remains of Mungo Man, which was famously discovered in 1974 and helped rewrite Australia’s history. The decision …

Man discovers “alien” creature’s corpse washed up on Australian beach A weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discoloured beast of a myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week. And though it’s anybody’s guess the idenтιтy of the stranded corpse, experts contacted …

93-Million-Year-Old “Killer” Crocodile Discovered With a Baby Dinosaur in Its Stomach Advanced nuclear and synchrotron imaging has confirmed that a 93-million-year-old crocodile found in Central Queensland devoured a juvenile dinosaur based on remains found in the fossilized stomach contents. The discovery of the fossils in 2010 was made by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum …

Mind-Blowing Fossil Site Found in ‘ᴅᴇᴀᴅ’ Heart of Australia The arid heart of Australia may not easily support life now, but once, many aeons ago, it was lush and teeming. What is now arid desert and dry shrub- and grᴀsslands were once thick with dense forests, alive with life. In one of these grᴀsslands, in …

Fossil hunters unearth mᴀssive mega-wombat graveyard Australian scientists unveiled the biggest-ever graveyard of an ancient rhino-sized mega-wombat called diprotodon, with the site potentially holding valuable clues on the species’ extinction. The remote fossil deposit in outback Queensland state is thought to contain up to 50 diprotodon skeletons including a huge specimen named Kenny, whose jawbone …

Ancient poop shows people in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese up to 2,700 years ago According to a statement released by Cell Press, Frank Maixner of the Eurac Research Insтιтute for Mummy Studies, Kerstin Kowarik of the Museum of Natural History Vienna, and their colleagues analyzed microbes, DNA, and proteins in 2,700-year-old …

Rare 6,000-year-old mussel shell reveals insights into First Nations technology New research by archaeologists has described rare shell artefacts discovered at Calperum Station and Murrawong (Glen Lossie) on the Murray River in South Australia. The artefacts were found in sites known to archaeologists as shell middens during field trips by Flinders and Griffith University scientists, …

Did the Ancient Egyptians reach Australia? Archaeologists claim a MAN-MADE structure was built under this mountain 5,000 years ago An archaeologist believes that there’s a MᴀssIVE 900-meter tall pyramid hidden in plain sight beneath thick layers of vegetation and soil in Australia. The structure is believed to date back some 5,000 years. Pyramids are scattered all …