In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...

And a lot of the black opal is found here, at Lightning Ridge. It's located on the edge of the Outback, with a population of just over 2,000 people. Miners have been searching for opal here for ...

The "echidnapus", bottom left, is among six monotreme species discovered at Lightning Ridge opal fields Scientists have discovered a bizarre creature dubbed the "echidnapus" which they believe ...

He has since been discharged. The alleged offending occurred in the NSW opal capital, Lightning Ridge. Picture: Google Maps Central North District Police District detectives subsequently launched ...

Lightning Ridge is the only place in the world where the black opal is found. This frontier town, 350 mi/565 km northwest of Sydney in New South Wales, is also the best place to buy this rare gem ...

In less than a year, the former NSW Lightning Ridge opal miner painted more than 750 coconuts. Many painted shells have since travelled across the globe, carried by the tourists who found them ...

And a lot of the black opal is found here, at Lightning Ridge. It's located on the edge of the Outback, with a population of just over 2,000 people. Miners have been searching for opal here for ...