These fellas didn't dig opal shafts, they found it in the gullies,” Aunty Brenda says. Opalised fossils continue to be dug up around Lightning Ridge to this day, but among some Euahlayi, there is ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: High-quality black opal can cost over $10,000 per carat, making it one of the world's most expensive gemstones. But mining black opal isn't easy.

In a dazzling discovery, fossils brought up from a mine in Wee Warra, near the Australian outback town of Lightning Ridge, belong to the newly named dinosaur species Weewarrasaurus pobeni. The animal, ...

Artist's reconstruction of Fostoria dhimbangunmal, a newly described iguanodontian dinosaur. James Kuether. Three decades ago, opal miner Bob Foster was getting frustrated while digging around in his ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Lightning Ridge is a town about 450 miles inland from Australia’s eastern coast, yet as he mined for opal there 35 years ago, Bob Foster would find remnants of fish bones and ...

Unusually colorful fossils found in Australia belong to a stunning new species of plant-eating dinosaur, scientists report today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The remains not only belong ...

Timothy Frauenfelder received funding from Dr Phil Bell's Australian Research Council grant. Nicolas Campione receives funding from the Australian Research Council. New insights gleaned from opalised ...