An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the ...

The fossil of the ancient fish, named Ferruaspis brocksi, was found at McGraths Flat, a fossil site near Gulgong, New South Wales. The name derives from "ferru" (Latin for iron) due to its ...

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia's largest back-boned animals—dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic Rhoetosaurus, the Cretaceous Wintonotitan, and other large sauropods.

Tiny structures and soft tissue features are so well preserved in the fossil, scientists could see what colour the fish was when it was alive. The discovery provides evolutionary clues for the ...

Scientists in Australia have found 15-million-year-old fossil fish so well preserved that the researchers were able to tell what the animals ate before dying. As reported by the Australian ...