Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

Nimbacinus dicksoni, an ancient meat-eating marsupial that lived in Australia during Oligocene and Miocene between 24 and 5.3 million years ago, had the...

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Robert McCormack from the Australian Aquatic Biological Pty’s Australian Crayfish Project has described a new species of crayfish from the swamps...

Apr 7, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the Journal of Zoology, the dingo is a distinct member of the dog family, not a kind of wild dog as previously believed. A...

Feb 24, 2014 by News Staff

A small fragment of a mineral called zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia confirms that the Earth’s crust first formed at least 4.4...

Dec 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A 19 to 16-million-year-old fossil of a kiwi-like bird unearthed at St Bathans, New Zealand, suggests that the kiwi is not a dwarf version of a distant...

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of biologists led by Dr Benjamin D. Charlton from the University of Sussex has discovered that koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) possess...

Nov 22, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have discovered a previously undescribed species of giant clam on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. Tridacna maxima, a close relative...

Nov 12, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Nora Noffke from Old Dominion University in Norfolk and her colleagues have unearthed evidence of complex microbial ecosystems in 3.48 billion year...

Nov 5, 2013 by News Staff

An Australian-U.S. team of paleontologists has found a unique fossil of a huge, carnivorous platypus that lived in what is now Australia during the late...

Oct 30, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of humpback dolphin in the waters off northern Australia. A newly identified...

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Palaeontology, two footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in southern Victoria are the oldest avian tracks...

Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

Australian researchers reporting in the journal Nature Communications have detected particles of gold in the branches and leaves of eucalyptus trees growing...

Oct 20, 2013 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, Denisovans – relatives to both Neanderthals and humans – somehow managed to cross Wallace’s...

Oct 9, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Ines Melendez from Curtin University have identified 70 intact steroidal compounds in a 380-million-year-old crustacean fossil from the...

Oct 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius. The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...

Sep 25, 2013 by News Staff

A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short). Aboriginal...

Jul 25, 2013 by News Staff

Two tiny marsupial fossils from Australia are prompting an overhaul of theory about marsupial evolution after they revealed unexpected links to South America...

Jun 19, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, has discovered 280 new craters on the Moon. Spatial distribution of the 66...

Jun 18, 2013 by News Staff

A multinational team of biologists writing in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has identified a new species of fungus that causes life-threatening infections...

Jun 18, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...