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Learn how to classify fossils
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/classroom-activities/fossil-classification/Learn the difference between impression, mineralised and trace fossils and begin to classify your specimens.
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Learn how to classify rocks
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/classroom-activities/rock-classification/Can you tell the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Use this series of posters to learn how to classify rocks and tell the difference between them!
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Fossils in Riversleigh, QLD
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/riversleigh/Fossil fauna from the Riversleigh site have altered our understanding about Australia's mid-Cainozoic vertebrate diversity.
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Dating dinosaurs and other fossils
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/dating-dinosaurs-and-other-fossils/Fossils themselves, and the sedimentary rocks they are found in, are very difficult to date directly.
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Predator and prey: The Winton Trackway
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/predator-and-prey-the-winton-trackway/We can never witness the awesome reality of a dinosaur stalking and attacking its prey. However, one fossil trackway near Winton in Queensland gives us the rare opportunity to reconstruct such a moment, to 're-live' the movement, reactions, fear and panic.
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Fossils in Wellington Caves, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/wellington-caves/The Wellington Caves are renowned for the diversity of fossils across a long period of time including mainland Thylacines.
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Fishing in Permian seas – a fossil fish donation from Blackwater, Queensland
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fossil-fish-donation-blackwater-queensland/Our Palaeontology section has just received a very welcome Cultural Gifts Program donation of fossil fish from Blackwater, Queensland.
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A National Treasure
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-national-treasure/How 'Eric' the opalised pliosaur made his way into the Australian Museum hall of fame.
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What are fossils?
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/The word ‘palaeontology’ refers to the study of ancient life. It is derived from the Greek words palaios (ancient) and logos (study). Fossils form the basis of this science.
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Fossils in Talbragar, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/talbragar/Talbragar is a well-known fossil site in Australia and contains one of the most significant Jurassic terrestrial fossil deposits in Australia. It is also the only Jurassic fish site found in New South Wales.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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