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News from the Flinders Palaeo Lab<\/h1>\n

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Grant funding helping to preserve a rare collection of skeletons at Flinders University<\/a><\/h1>\n

Flinders University palaeontologists have been awarded nearly $20,000 from the federally funded Community Heritage Grant to support the first stage of rehousing and preserving the highly significant Flinders University Vertebrate Collection (FUVC).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

November 12, 2024<\/a><\/div>\n

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Grant funding helping to preserve the Flinders University Vertebrate Collection<\/a><\/h1>\n

The Flinders University Palaeontology Research Group have been awarded $6,700 from the Federally funded Community Heritage Grant Program<\/em> to undertake a preservation needs assessment of the Flinders University Vertebrate Collection.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

November 18, 2023<\/div>\n

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Meet the prehistoric eagle that ruled Australian forests 25 million years\u00a0ago<\/a><\/h2>\n

The parched deserts of the South Australian outback were once a rainforest filled with a rich variety of birds and animals. Now, thanks to a new fossil discovery, we know the apex predator of this lush ecosystem was a newly discovered eagle that lived 25 million years ago.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

September 28, 2021<\/div>\n

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Brains \u2018primed\u2019 for life on land<\/a><\/h2>\n
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A new study adds another layer to the remarkable evolutionary transition of life from water to land on Earth. The international study of the prehistoric \u2018relic\u2019 [\u2026]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

November 23, 2020<\/div>\n

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50 years of fossil wonders<\/h2>\n
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A casual weekend of cave exploring in 1969 was the start of something big when young enthusiasts Rod Wells and Grant Gartrell clambered through to the [\u2026]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

November 19, 2019<\/div>\n

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Meet \u2018Hercules\u2019, a parrot of child-size proportions<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Australasian palaeontologists have discovered the world\u2019s largest parrot, standing up to 1m tall with a massive beak able to crack most food sources. The new bird [\u2026]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

August 7, 2019<\/div>\n

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Marsupial Lion \u2018similar to Tassie Devil\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n
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New research into the first complete skeleton of Australia\u2019s legendary \u2018Marsupial Lion\u2019 provides extraordinary insights into the species\u2019 hunting ability, social traits \u2013 and similarities with [\u2026]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

December 13, 2018<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Climate change gave roos an evolutionary jump<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Surprising new findings by Flinders University researchers have changed scientific understanding of how kangaroo evolution was linked to environmental change over the past 12 million years. [\u2026]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

October 7, 2018<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fossil link to oldest fish, and life on earth<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Flinders University fossil hunters have unearthed a new evolutionary link to the first bony fishes in another step forward to more accurately understand our distant origins. [\u2026]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

May 31, 2018<\/div>\n

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Burrowing into the inner world of snake evolution<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Looking inside the head of a snake is so much easier when the snake is a fossil. Flinders University and South Australian Museum postdoctoral researcher Alessandro [\u2026]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

March 15, 2018<\/div>\n

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KI Keisha digs her fossil experience<\/a><\/h2>\n
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High school student Keisha Hadland recently swapped life on Kangaroo Island for excavating the\u00a0fossils of extinct giant kangaroos. The 17-year-old recipient of this year\u2019s James Moore [\u2026]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

November 1, 2017<\/div>\n

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Flightless fowls of a far-flung nature<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Not all fowl are chickens and ducks. Australia\u2019s giant mihirungs (Dromornithidae) were flightless fowl that included some of the most massive birds in the world, such [\u2026]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

October 11, 2017<\/div>\n

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Teagan unearths her dream degree<\/a><\/h2>\n

Unearthing giant marsupial bones has given country girl Teagan Cross a chance to move back in time and have an adventure of a lifetime. After winning [\u2026]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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