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A University of Queensland researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia. Dr Anthony Romilio from UQ’s Dinosaur Lab has identified 66 fossilised footprints left in the Callide Basin in Central Queensland during the Early Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago.

A boulder was donated to a high school 20 years ago. Only now has its secret been unearthed

One of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever documented in Australia has been hiding in plain sight at a regional Queensland high school.

  • Savannah Meacham

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Lauren Ash. After stopping semaglutide “everything just came back to the way it was. I got hungry again,” she said.

‘I got hungry again’: What happens when you get off Ozempic?

Some people shed the kilos on semaglutide but regain all the lost weight when they get off the drug. Researchers are working on changing that.

  • Liam Mannix
Satellite images showing Tropical Cyclone Alfred to the east of Australia on Wednesday.

Cyclone Alfred has slowed down – why is that dangerous?

Alfred’s approach to the Australian mainland has become more protracted, but this isn’t the relief coastal communities had hoped for.

  • Bianca Hall
 Granite Mountain Records Vault in Utah which is owned by the Mormon Church.

How our personal records ended up in a Mormon mountain vault in Utah

Privacy concerns are growing over a government agency that allows a church the ability to identify people and their family connections for commercial benefit.

  • Claire Aird, Greg Muller and Claudianna Blanco
Using aircraft to release aerosols could be a method to prevent a cyclone or reduce its intensity.

‘Like preparing to fight a war’: Can we stop a cyclone in its tracks?

Scientists are dusting off Cold War-era research into weather manipulation as climate change intensifies and makes cyclones more dangerous.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
James Harrison

The man who saved 2.4 million babies, and the lab replicating his remarkable blood

James Harrison’s legacy is at the heart of a wild story about canny science, boundless goodwill and an errant blood transfusion vanquishing a devastating and deadly disease.

  • Kate Aubusson
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Scientists have identified the conditions in which human brain tissue turned into glass after a volcanic eruption.

‘Absolutely mind-blowing’: Human brain turned to glass by volcanic eruption

The finding potentially re-writes our understanding of what happened when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

  • Angus Dalton
The Australian Reptile Park expects a spike in Sydney funnel-web numbers.

‘More abundant’: Spider season spikes as summer ends

Sydneysiders can expect to see a lot more spiders, including deadly funnel-webs, as weather becomes perfect for arachnids.

  • Angus Dalton
Steve Cook is a former animal-welfare officer dealing with burnout from a non-stop, stressful job... but now he says he’s found peace in leaving work behind, being relaxed, finding other things to do with his life.

Feeling exhausted, cynical, inefficient? It could be ‘burnout’ ... if it actually exists

Burnout has emerged as the modern condition, but scientists are deeply divided. Where some see a crisis, others see “a fashionable diagnosis” or “psychobabble”.

  • Liam Mannix
Jaun-Paul Kalman was rushed to hospital on February 5 after a blue-ring octopus bit him on the thumb at Balmoral.

1000 times worse than cyanide: Blue-ringed octopus bite can turn deadly, quickly

A man bitten in Mosman said he felt himself stop breathing. He was hit with so much venom he suffered another three bouts of paralysis in the week that followed.

  • Angus Dalton

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