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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

The story behind the unveiling of the most diverse dinosaur track fauna in the world

Author interview with Dr Anthony Romilio about a new study published in PeerJ

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).

Seasickness, snow and sea ice couldn’t keep a University of Queensland scientist from his mission to learn more about Antarctica’s dinosaurs, with the palaeontologist returning from his trip with more than a tonne of fossils.

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