Fossil sites near Sydney
Fossils have been found at many sites near Sydney. Some of these are no longer accessible but coastal exposures still give the amateur collector ample chance of finding good fossils. All of the fossils found near Sydney are from Triassic rocks ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Common Fossils of the Sydney Basin
The sediments of the Sydney Basin belong largely to two geological periods; the Permian, 300-250 million years ago, and the Triassic, 250-205 million years ago. The Sydney region, extending from Wollongong to Newcastle and Lithgow, is part of a ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Collecting fossils in New South Wales
In New South Wales there is no legislation specifically dealing with the collection of fossils. Fossil collecting is prohibited in national parks or other areas that have been declared as reserves for the preservation of fossils. Fossils cannot ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgos were widespread at the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth, around 125-220 million years ago. Today Ginkgo biloba is known as 'a living fossil', because it is the only surviving representative of a group of plants which was once common ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Paulette Bogan
Jeff's Uncle Roy runs a museum. That means he's always zooming off to strange places to find ruins and treasure. But Jeff has never gone along-until now. They're headed to the Sahara desert to search for dinosaur fossils. And Jeff knows he'll ... [... more]
Random House |
Richard E. Leakey
Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what .. [... more]
Random House |
Prehistoric Plants
Nigel visits a fortifying garden in Sydney called Mt Annan Botanic Gardens. This unique garden specializes in showcasing older and historic plants. One being the Wollemi Pine which was only known through fossils and thought to be extinct until it ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Cycads
Cycads are one of the most ancient of all plants. Growing over 200 million years ago, well before the dinosaurs, they once covered the earth and have been found in fossils on every continent. They are true survivors and with home gardeners ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Dawn Redwood
Imagine someone turning up with a living Tyrannosaurus Rex. Peter Valder discussed how this has happened more than once during the last century. The Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) was known through its fossils to have existed up to ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
IN 1902, WILLIAM HORNADAY handed a map to the famous paleontologist Barnum Brown. It was Hornaday's hand-drawn directions to a remote area of the Montana Badlands, where he believed amazing dinosaur fossils lay buried. Following the map, Brown ... [... more]
Random House |
Family Tettigarctidae
The hairy cicadas are a relict group of two species found only in Australia although fossils assigned to this family are known from the Northern Hemisphere. Tettigarctia crinita is found in the alpine regions of Southeastern Australia and T. ... [... more]
NSW Agriculture |
Bonnie Worth
The Cat in the Hat makes another surprise appearance at Dick and Sally's house--only this time he makes his entrance riding atop a brachiosaurus! Soon, he's off, along with Dick and Sally, millions of years back in time to see how fossils were ... [... more]
Random House |
