The newly-discovered footprints of theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs date back to the Early Cretaceous epoch, over 120 million years ago, when Australia...
Paleontologists from the University of New South Wales have unearthed the fossilized remains of three new species in the thylacinid genera Badjcinus, Nimbacinus,...
Tanimbar is one of the main island groups in Wallacea (a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian...
Dingoes (Canis dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depend on understanding...
In collaboration with Indigenous rangers and conservation managers, scientists from the University of Sydney and elsewhere have decoded the genomes of...
Paleontologists in Australia have discovered fossilized skeletal remains that belonged to a previously unknown, 100-million-year-old anhanguerian pterosaur.
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Analyzing 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia’s Mid West region, geoscientists have pushed back the timeline...
Paleontologists from the Museums Victoria Research Institute and elsewhere have unearthed a nearly 50,000-year-old skeleton of Simosthenurus occidentalis...
The three newly-identified species show combinations of features not previously seen before in other living or fossil monotremes, according to Professor...
Scientists from the University of Tasmania and Western University have experimentally demonstrated that kangaroos, wallabies and other Australian marsupials...
In new research, scientists from the University of the Sunshine Coast and the University of South Australia found that adherence to a Mediterranean diet...
Madagascar is the most plausible center of origin for the iconic baobabs, also known as upside-down trees, or the tree of life, according to new research.
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The three new species belong to the extinct kangaroo genus Protemnodon, which were common members of Cenozoic communities across Australia and New Guinea...
A team of archaeologists from James Cook University and elsewhere reports the oldest securely dated ceramics found in Australia from archaeological excavations...
Entomologists have discovered a remarkable new genus and species of longhorn beetle living in the subtropical rainforests of southeastern Queensland, Australia.
Excastra...
Mice of the genus Pseudomys are among the few terrestrial placental mammals that colonized Australia without human intervention.
The Pilbara delicate mouse...
Researchers at CSIRO have sequenced the first genome of the night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), one of the world’s rarest and most elusive birds.
The...
Flinders University paleontologist Brian Choo and his colleagues have described a new genus and species of Devonian tetrapodomorph fish based on several...
The earliest known evidence of photosynthetic structures has been identified inside a collection of the enigmatic cylindrical microfossils Navifusa majensis...
