Hi Everyone,
It's been a while since I last posted (sorry!), but I have news of two exciting publications to share:
The first is a paper by Jake Kotevski et al about a megaraptorid skull element found at Shack Bay: A megaraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) frontal from the upper Strzelecki Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Victoria, Australia - ScienceDirect
The second describes 27 bird footprints on the Bass Coast: Earliest known Gondwanan bird tracks: Wonthaggi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia | PLOS ONE
Here is some of the popular press reports:
- ‘World’s oldest’ megaraptorid bone found at Shack Bay (sgst.com.au)
- A megaraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) frontal from the upper Strzelecki Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Victoria, Australia - ScienceDirect
- 125-million-year-old footprints rewrite the history of birds in Australia - Museums Victoria
- Australian discovery of 120m-year-old footprints provides earliest evidence for birds in southern hemisphere | Australia news | The Guardian
- Birds set foot near South Pole in Early Cretaceous, Australian tracks show (emory.edu)
- Fossil footprints found on Victorian coast 'oldest evidence of birds in southern hemisphere' - ABC News
- Fragile bird footprints dating back to over 100 million years discovered on the Southern Australia coast - Science (monash.edu)
- Fossil footprints are the oldest traces of birds in Australia | New Scientist
- NEW DISCOVERY: Earliest evidence that birds set foot near South Pole 125 million years ago (sgst.com.au)
- Birds set foot near South Pole in Early Creta | EurekAlert!
