Australia

Source: mobile.reuters.com --- 13 hours ago
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 hour ago
Scientists have discovered three new species of Australian dinosaur discovered in a prehistoric billabong in Western Queensland. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 hours ago
In Australia, the state of Western Australia is following New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia by proposing legislation that would prohibit bookmakers from offering inducements including free bets in order to gain new customers. Terry Waldron, ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 9 hours ago
The predator, named Australovenator, was about 2 metres high at the hip and had three slashing claws on each arm (Image: Scott A. Hocknull et al. ...

Source: www.dailyfx.com --- 10 hours ago
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Source: www.channelnewsasia.com --- 13 hours ago
SYDNEY: Australia announced a 155 million US dollar package for isolated Aboriginal communities, after a new report revealed shocking levels of child abuse among the downtrodden minority. ...

Source: www.kidk.com --- 8 hours ago
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. ...

Source: www.artsjournal.com --- 10 hours ago
"A survey of corporate and private philanthropy to Australia's 28 major performing arts companies reveals that in 2008 individual support through bequests, gifts of money and prescribed private funds had increased from 2004 by 119 per cent to $20 million."... ...

Source: chattahbox.com --- 11 hours ago
(ChattahBox)–The laid-back outback town of Winton, Queensland Australia, is known for its sheep farms, the itinerant sheep shearers known as “swaggies” romanticized in the song “Waltzing Matilda,” and for its fantastic dinosaur fossils. Recently, paleontologists discovered three new species of dinosaurs near Winton’s Fossil Triangle, an ancient lake bed known for its wealth of dinosaur skeletons. A [...] ...

Source: www.bing.com --- 8 hours ago
Reporting on July 3 in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal, PLoS ONE , Scott Hocknull and colleagues at the Queensland Museum and the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History describe the fossils of three new mid-Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Winton Formation in eastern Australia ... ...

Source: www.bing.com --- 12 hours ago
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. The beast was a 1,100 pound (500 kilogram) meat ... ...

Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 9 hours ago
Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past. ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 9 hours ago
Taipei - The film Disgrace by Australian director Steve Jacobs on Friday won the grand prize in the New Talent Competition at the Taipei Film Festival. The jury awarded the grand prize, worth 600,000 Taiwan dollars (18,000 US dollars), to Disgrace fo... ...

Source: www.newscientist.com --- 12 hours ago
The discovery of two massive plant-eating titanosaurs, and a velociraptor-like predator, promises to put Australia on the global dinosaur map at last ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 13 hours ago
Sydney - The bones of three new species of dinosaur have been found in the Australian Outback, officials said Friday. One, a carnivore nicknamed Banjo, stood 2 metres tall and had three large claws on each hand. The other two were plant-eaters, Clanc... ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 16 hours ago
The Chinese Government has reacted angrily to an Australian parliamentary delegation's visit to meet Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in India. It is the first time a group of Australian MPs and senators has travelled to ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 17 hours ago
Six-member Australian federal parliamentary delegation Friday rebuked the Chinese anger against their ongoing visit here ...

Source: www.proactiveinvestors.com --- 11 hours ago
Xtract Energy PLC (AIM: XTR) said it sold a further 10.67 million of the shares it holds in MEO Australia Ltd (ASX: MEO) for A$2.37 million. It reiterated that it will use the money to support the growth of the other investments within its portfolio and for working capital purposes. Following the latest sale, Xtract retains 14,375,629 MEO shares, or approximately 3.4 percent of the capital. As a result of the decrease in the size of Xtract's interest in MEO, future announcements made by MEO on the Australian Stock Exchange will no longer be relayed as a matter of routine by Xtract on AIM. ...

Source: www.embraceaustralia.com --- 8 hours ago
As the anti-flu drug Tamiflu overtakes Viagra as the most "spammed" drug online, it's been revealed that Australia's indigenous population are more susceptible to swine flu than the average Australian Related posts: Swine flu – advice for travellers With fears of a Swine Flu pandemic, travellers should expect... Australia sees massive population growth Increased migration and a rise in the birth rate has... G’Day Australia Festival hits USA This month saw America launch its sixth annually celebration of... ...