A newly discovered fossil deposit near Kunming, China, may hold the keys to understanding how these organisms laid the foundations for life on land and at sea today, according to an international team of researchers. The fossil deposit contains an exceptionally preserved trove of early vertebrates and other rare, soft-bodied organisms. More than half of…
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Going through boxes of old family photographs and came across this classic. In 1978 a 14-year-old Palaeo Paul won my age group for my fossil collection in a competition run by the Australian Museum. The competition was open for any natural history collection so my fossils were up against collections of butterflies and insects, rocks,…
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Back in 1988, Palaeo Paul was a keen postgraduate student chasing the fossil crocodiles of Australia. While most of my field work was at the amazing Riversleigh Station in northwestern Queensland, we did here of crocodile fossils coming from the Alcoota site in the Northern Territory. At that time, this site was being worked by…
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This must have been around 1989 when I took some friends from down the street into the Australian Museum to view Eric, the opalised Plesiosaur. I had not long finished cleaning Eric and putting him back together and was so proud of him, I just wanted to show him off to anyone and everyone! (and…
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