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Australia at a glance - Australia's Culture PortalAustralia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...
This includes Pleistocene era Aboriginal body fossils, many of which were removed and sent overseas. Riversleigh, north-west Queensland, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is reco...
Blue Lake, Kosciuszko National Park. Australia has over 500 national parks. Most of our national parks are managed by the States and Territories of Australia; however the Commonwealth of Australia manages six national parks and a further 13 marine parks...
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...
Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. In March 1812 the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hovell, Major Mitchell ...
Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...
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Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum (more info)
Situated in Bathurst, in central New South Wales, the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum is the home of the internationally renowned Sommerville Collection of rare minerals and fossils. The Museum also has a temporary exhibition space which has a changi
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Australian plant fossils - A brief bibliography (website Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) )Stewart, WN 1983, Paleobotany and the evolution of plants, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. White, ME 1988, Australia´s fossil plants, Reed, Frenchs Forest, NSW. ISBN 0730103900 Describes the evolution of Australia´s flora, with over 400 colour phot...
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Both the Naracoorte and Riversleigh sites provide evidence separately of key stages in the evolution of the fauna of Australia - the world's most isolated continent. The Riversleigh Fossil Mammal Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The...
Over 2000 kilometres separate the Naracoorte and Riversleigh sites, which form the World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Site. Riversleigh is one of the world's richest Oligo-Miocene mammal records, linking that period (15-25 million years ago) to the ...
The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The World Heritage criteria against which the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was listed remain the formal criteria for ...
The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The World Heritage criteria against which the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was listed remain the formal criteria for ...
Over 2000 kilometres separate the Naracoorte (South Australia) and Riversleigh (Queensland) sites, which form the World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Site. The site at Naracoorte, South Australia, covers 300 hectares and is located in flat country, p...
Both the Naracoorte and Riversleigh sites provide evidence separately of key stages in the evolution of the fauna of Australia - the world's most isolated continent. The Naracoorte Fossil Mammal Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The ...
Natural ScienceMinerals & RocksMeteorites & TektitesInvertebrate FossilsVertebrate FossilsBirds, Mammals, Reptiles & FrogsInsectsSpiders & ScorpionsWormsShells, Slugs, Squid and other MolluscsCrabs, Prawns, Barnacles & other CrustaceansFishesSpongesSea St...
The large collection of vertebrate fossils, ranges from the world's oldest fishes, dating back 480 million years through to the abundant Pleistocene mammals found in caves throughout Western Australia. Notable are our large collections of Devonian fishes ...
> A full colour guide for tourists and amateur geologists describing the formation and the history of the bizarre formations of the Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park. The Wollemi Pine The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil from the Age of t...
The Western Australian Museum Shop has a large range of fossils and gem stones available in store. - A coiled, flat, chambered fossil shell of an extinct cephalopod mollusc that was abundant in the Cretaceous Period. Trilobite - Trilobites are extinct an...
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