An Australian student worried about her parents' money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars ($10 million) 10 months ago. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A new book by Richard Woolcott, who ran Australia's foreign service for four years, points to the pitfalls of translating thoughts into different languages. Take the Australian diplomat in France who tried to tell his French audience that as he looked back on his career, it was divided in two parts, with dull postings before life in Paris. "When I look at my backside, I find it is divided in... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Scientists have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth’s history, the pterodactyl, to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation capabilities. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

A 650-million-year-old underwater reef, 10 times higher than the Great Barrier Reef, has been discovered in the middle of Australia's outback. The ancient reef, formed nearly 100 million years before the first known animal life evolved, is the only one of its age in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Australia is about to experience its own "dinorush", beginning with today's unveiling of a previously undiscovered 25m-long dinosaur that roamed central-western Queensland about 100 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

It was a stick up of a different kind for one Australian burglar, who broke into a neighbour's house and played sex games in the bathroom with a bottle of toilet detergent and a vacuum cleaner. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The traditional refined English accent is in danger of disappearing, and the hit Australian TV soap Neighbours could be partly to blame. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonised a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Australian researchers have found a unique way to control the enzyme which causes damage during a heart attack and, less critically, is also responsible for turning snot green. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Usually, we picture Triceratops as herbivores being preyed upon by carnivores like Tyrannosaurus. In fact, Triceratops and dinos like it may have had a more varied diet. picked by VooDooPeacock 2 years ago

Scientists have found the remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina. This find is considered a missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and giant four-footed herbivores. Link above is summary. For actual paper titled, A Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Ischigualasto Formation (Triassic, Carnian) and the Early Evolution of Sauropodomorpha, click here picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

As the sun rises over the remote settlement of Burketown in the Australian outback of northern Queensland, the first, pale rays of light illuminate an awesome sight. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A crow-sized reptile sporting a lengthy tail likely soared through the skies some 160 million years ago, snatching feathered dinosaurs and tiny flying mammals from the air, suggest fossils of a newly identified pterosaur. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

New geological evidence indicates the Grand Canyon may be so old that dinosaurs once lumbered along its rim, according to a study by researchers. The team used a technique known as radiometric dating to show the Grand Canyon may have formed more than 55 million years ago, pushing back its assumed origins by 40 million to 50 million years. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Far from becoming extinct 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs actually co-existed with early humans and even helped in the construction of the pyramids. This is the word of Vince Fenech, Evangelist pastor and director of a fully licensed, State-approved Creationist institution which admits children aged between four and 18. picked by mitzuzake 1 year ago

Japanese and Chinese scientists have announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species that used to roam the southwestern region of present-day Zhejiang province in east China 100 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A dinosaur skeleton found 24 years ago in Montana has finally been identified as a new species that links North American dinosaurs with Asian dinosaurs. The dinosaur would have weighed 30 to 40 pounds, walked on two feet and stood about three feet tall. The fossil came from sediment that's about 80 million years old. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Australian scientists have found a way to boost crop yields in a move they say could help feed and clothe millions of people in a time of climate crisis.
Researchers at the University of Newcastle have found that by knocking out a gene from the genetic code of a tomato plant, it grows sweeter fruit and longer-lasting leaves. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

Teen sex, it turns out, is an issue at least as old as the dinosaurs. Scientists have found inside the fossilized bones of three different types of dinosaurs the remains of a special type of calcium-rich bone tissue that forms just before egg-laying to enable pregnant female to produce eggshells. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An outback Queensland town has discovered boomerangs really do come back after an artefact stolen from a museum 25 years ago was finally returned by a guilt-ridden US tourist. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago