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 ...

The "echidnapus", bottom left, is among six monotreme species discovered at Lightning Ridge opal fields ... before - in living or fossil monotremes, said Director of the Australian Museum Research ...

It has seen him cross paths with miners, collectors and traders from all over Australia, and world-class palaeontologists like Jenni and Liz. Reading Liz and Bob's book on fossils redefined opal ...

We know of them from fossils found as opals in Lightning Ridge and ... are known from hundreds of sites across Australia but the best localities are caves, such as those at Naracoorte in South ...

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