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Fossil footprints found in an Ipswich coal mine have long been thought to be that of a large predatory dinosaur, but new research reveals they were instead left by a gentle, long-necked herbivore.

UQ PhD candidate Tim Richards has nearly finished his Doctor of Philosophy and he’s played the role of doctor several times on stage, but his current ‘practice’ involves studying bones found in the ground rather than the human body.

Researchers from The University of Queensland’s have revealed a new species of flying reptile that soared over the vast inland sea covering much of outback Queensland during the Age of Dinosaurs.

A new species of prehistoric croc that prowled the waterways of south-eastern Queensland millions of years ago has been unveiled by University of Queensland researchers.

A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China by an international team of palaeontologists.

A prehistoric croc measuring more than five metres long – dubbed the ‘swamp king’ – ruled south eastern Queensland waterways only a few million years ago.

North America had Tyrannosaurus rex, South America had Giganotosaurus carolinii, and in Africa there was Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, but massively proportioned predatory dinosaurs have not featured in Australia’s prehistoric past. That is, until now.

An international research team has been stunned to discover that some crocodile-like reptiles walked on their hind legs like dinosaurs and measured over three metres in length.

The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved after more than a half a century.

An award-winning French video artist and sculptor has teamed up with University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Steve Salisbury to showcase the dinosaur tracks of Western Australia’s Kimberley region.

Researchers from the University of New England (New South Wales), The University of Queensland and the Australian Opal Centre have described new species of Cretaceous crocodilians from Lightning Ridge.

The University of Queensland's Dr Steve Salisbury and Museums Victoria's Tim Ziegler join Philip Clark to talk about Australian dinosaurs for ABC Nightlife

Research by palaeontologists from The University of Queensland is revealing exciting new insights into one of Australia's most important dinosaur fossils.

A new study lead by PhD candidate Andréas Jannel sheds light on the foot biomechanics and posture of sauropod dinosaurs, using Rhoetosaurus brownei, an early sauropod from the Middle Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures of Roma, south-western Queensland, Australia

Tracks made by dinosaurs the size of sparrows have been discovered in South Korea by an international team of palaeontologists.

UQ Dinosaur Lab PhD candidate Tim Richards talks with ABC's Kelly Higgins-Devine about the quest for Australia's elusive pterosaur fossils

Dr Steve Salisbury chats with UQ ChangeMakers about research into the 130 million-year-old dinosaur tracks from the Broome Sandstone.

The life, death, decay and fossilisation of Isisfordia duncani, a basal eusuchian crocodyliform from

Meet Australia's newest dinosaur: Diluvicursor pickeringi, a new small-bodied ornithopod from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of southern Victoria

Vulcanops jennyworthyae, a large-bodied burrowing bat from the lower Miocece of St Bathans, Central Otago, New Zealand