Scientists led by Tim Flannery have unearthed evidence for a previously unknown “age of monotremes” when egg-laying mammals dominated Australia.
They were shrewd,complex and creative,and we shared the planet with them (and other types of humans) for thousands of years. So why did the Neanderthals die out and not us?
A recently discovered fossil in Germany pushes the origin of cloning sea stars back more than 150 million years in first-ever evidence for the phenomenon.
One of Australia’s most complete fossils to date has emerged from a labyrinth in regional Victoria.
Mega sharks and a bird with a six-metre wingspan graced our shoreline 5 million years ago,and urban explorers can still uncover traces of them at this bayside beach.
By analysing fossils from Chinese caves,Australian scientists have helped uncover one of palaeontology’s biggest mysteries.
The pale-white slab was locked away for a century. New analysis has redefined the history of the ocean and all the creatures that depend on it – including humans.
Nearly 30 years ago a retired farmer found a salamander-like prehistoric amphibian in a sandstone block. It hasn’t been formally identified – until now.
The man who rediscovered Victoria’s faunal emblem,the Leadbeater’s possum,60 years ago now fears he may live to see it go extinct for real.
That’s longer than the average bus,and enough to give other sauropods neck envy.
From massive to tiny and spanning millions of years,the dinosaurs from South America could also provide a clue to Australia’s ancient past.