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University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Anthony Romilio has contributed specialist expertise to a new study of dinosaur tracks discovered in central China, digitally reconstructing trackways preserved on near-vertical cliff faces.

A dinosaur’s 40-second journey more than 120 million years ago has been brought back to life by a University of Queensland-led research team using advanced digital modelling techniques.

A University of Queensland researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia.

A new book for children, featuring Broome’s famous dinosaur tracks, has been launched with the help of The University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab.

Scientists have discovered the tracks of a five-metre-long raptor dinosaur, challenging what was previously known about the species’ size range.

Dr Anthony Romilio has been honoured as the top researcher in palaeontology for the second year by The Australian's Research Magazine.

A University of Queensland researcher is part of an international team that has validated the fossilised footprints of several dinosaurs in a restaurant in China.

Artificial intelligence has revealed that prehistoric footprints thought to be made by a vicious dinosaur predator were in fact from a timid herbivore.

State-of-the-art technology has been used to reveal previously unknown details about cranial anatomy of Trilophosuchus rackhami, a tiny mekosuchine crocodylian from the Miocence of NW Qld

3D modelling and engineering methods have been used to digitally reconstruct and test the function of sauropod feet.

Fossil footprints found in an Ipswich coal mine have long been thought to be that of a large ‘raptor-like’ predatory dinosaur, but scientists have found they were instead left by a timid long-necked herbivore.

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.