FOSSIL PUZZLE PLANT DISCOVERY IN GLADSTONE REGION  

Scientists from Queensland Museum and Central Queensland University have made an exciting discovery of a fossil plant on a site near Gladstone.   

The discovery of the horsetail or puzzle grass specimen is evidence that the plant has survived for at least another 50 million years after it was thought to be extinct in Australia. The tiny specimen was discovered by CQ University Associate Professor Anita Milroy. The fossil is the youngest evidence of the plant group from Australia, and its discovery will help understand the history and distribution of the plant.