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 ...

The first week of the Australian Opal Centre and Australian Geographic fossil dig at Lightning Ridge has unearthed plenty of fossils and opals. Around 14 dinosaur bones, six yabby buttons, 13 bivalves ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: But now our first fossil, and I don't mean Dr Paul Willis, who's dubbed me as one. Paul ...

Here, discarded junk such as gallon drums and car doors are reused as building materials. This quirky structure was constructed for 1967 Australian film Goddess and was never a functioning place of ...

We go down below with the miners of Lightning Ridge, NSW, on their never-ending search for the opal that could “change their lives.” Australian opals have long been considered the best in the world. s ...

LIGHTNING RIDGE, Australia -- Hudson pear sounds like something a fancy restaurant might serve on its dessert menu, topped off with a dollop of cream. But in the hot, dry wilds of the Australian ...

“It’s an ugly town with beautiful things in it,” says the woman in the opal shop in Lightning Ridge. It’s true, Australia’s opal mining towns cling to bedrock stubbled with scrub and encircled by ...