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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.

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.