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An unprecedented 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been identified on a 25-kilometre stretch of the Dampier Peninsula coastline around Walmadany (James Price Point).

It has a parrot-like beak, bones in its skin and an inner ear similar to a turtle - meet Kunbarrasaurus, Australia’s newest dinosaur.

Everyone loves a good dinosaur story and they don’t come much better than the dramatic dinosaur stampede found in Queensland’s outback. But did a stampede really happen?

Palaeontologists have reaffirmed the idea that the set of large footprints at Lark Quarry in outback Queensland were made by a plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur, as opposed to a predatory theropod.

Congratulations to UQ VP & Biomechanics Lab PhD candidate Anthony Romilio on winning the prestigious 2014 Taylor & Francis Award for Best Student Article in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The rolling downs of central-western Queensland are littered with the remnants of a bygone world.  With luck and a good eye, one might find the sun-bleached bones of a long-dead giant dinosaur or a diminutive crocodilian.

Congratulations to Caitlin Syme for taking out the Best Student Oral Presentation prize at the 14th Conference on Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology, and Systematics (CAVEPS) in Adelaide.

The coastline of the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome in the west Kimberley preserves one the largest and most significant stretches of dinosaur track-sites anywhere in the world. There are literally thousands of tracks and trackways representing at least 15 different types of dinosaurs, some of which there is no other record for in Australia. 

Congratulations to Tamara Fletcher on winning the 2013 School of Biological Sciences 3 Minute Thesis competition.

University of Queensland research is helping to the put the small western-Queensland town of Isisford on the fossil map.