Fossil Education

Learn more about the history of the fossil centre, the time line, the people involved and the dig site.

Follow links to research papers and publications, other fossil sites in Australia and around the world.

Take a look through the Riversleigh centre and the interactive displays, see the laboratory and learn how to unearth the fossils.

Annual Riversleigh Dig

In North-West Queensland, on a remote plateau of a cattle station called Riversleigh, explosives, sledgehammers and crow bars have e...

Palaeontologist

John D. Scanlon BSc Hons (Sydney) PhD (UNSW) FCD
Dr Scanlon joi...

Riversleigh Fossil Fields

Location
Riversleigh is a cattle station on the Gregory River, situated 250 km north-west of Mount Isa a...