Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...
A botanical Pompeii: Researchers find spectacular Australian plant fossils from 30 million years ago
The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows and a contemporary landscape dotted with extinct volcanoes show this wasn't always the case. Between 40 and 20 ...
A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct.
If textbooks ever made you believe mammals like humans, cats, and kangaroos first evolved somewhere up north, think again. A remarkable discovery from Australia has flipped our understanding of mammal ...
Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, ...
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The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...
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