Palaeoscience

Look closely and you’ll notice a number of faint cuts and pits across the surface of this rib bone. This rib belongs to a Diprotodon, an extinct rhino-sized relative of today’s wombats that lived during the Pleistocene (0.1–2 million years ago)....

Fingerprinting Gobi Dinosaurs is an exhibition of field images by Dr Phil Bell whilst on-site in Mongolia. This insight into UNE research opens in the Museum's Collaborative Learning space Sunday 23rd of July to coincide with the Vice Chancellor's Community Open Day....

In 2015, a major discovery took place, this time not of a human relative, but a new species of dinosaur. Dr Phil Bell, from UNE’s Palaeoscience Research Centre, led the inquiry with the help of the Australian Opal Centre. The yet-to-be-officially-named beast belongs to a group...