‘Extremely exciting’ fossils found in opal field in NSW show Australia had ‘one-hole age’
About 100 million years ago, in what is now Australia’s opal field, a strange, furry, egg-laying, rabbit-sized mammal glided through a puddle along a massive polar floodplain. This mammal – Opalius is magnificent But this creature, which scientists thankfully nicknamed “echidnapus,” was among the ancient descendants of the monotremes, one of the planet’s most unique… Read More »