One in a billion bones becomes a fossil — even fewer turn into opal. In a pocket of north-western New South Wales, two pioneering women are uncovering relics of our deep past. In a small room ...

The array of fossils were found about 25 years ago by palaeontologist Elizabeth Smith and her daughter Clytie while they were going through the discards of an opal mine. They donated the specimens ...

Other fossils include: turtles, crocodiles, fish, birds, early mammals, mussels, snails, giant marine reptiles, pine cones, plant stems and seeds. The Australian Opal Centre has 4000 or more fossils ...