Dec 13, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered and examined the fossilized craniodental remains of Ramsayia magna, an extinct large-bodied wombat species that lived in...

Dec 6, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists in Australia have unearthed the country’s first head and associated body of a long-necked marine reptile called Eromangasaurus australis. The...

Nov 22, 2022 by News Staff

Temnospondyli is a diverse group of extinct amphibians that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods. The body mass...

Nov 16, 2022 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria researchers has decoded the genome of the golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha), a woody shrub or...

Nov 10, 2022 by News Staff

Wild gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus), a medium-sized benthic octopus species common in temperate waters around Australia and New Zealand, frequently...

Nov 7, 2022 by News Staff

Stromatolites are solid, laminar structures reflecting complex interplays between microbial communities and their environment. Hand sample of Dresser Formation...

Oct 31, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Curtin University researcher Kit Prendergast has named the new bee species Leioproctus zephyr, after her pet dog Zephyr after noticing a protruding part...

Oct 3, 2022 by News Staff

The Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach (Panesthia lata), a species of large wingless cockroach that disappeared from its home island following the...

Sep 16, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists from Curtin University and elsewhere have studied a three-dimensionally mineralized heart (the oldest ever found), stomach, intestine and...

Sep 8, 2022 by News Staff

An analysis of advanced satellite images from the German Aerospace Centre has revealed an ancient landform with a circular rim and central dome ‘hidden’...

Sep 5, 2022 by News Staff

Three of the new orchid species are endemic to the rugged Kimberley region of Western Australia. Calochilus kimberleyensis. Image credit: Barrett et al.,...

Aug 30, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists have used a micro-CT scanner and 3D printing to reconstruct a herbivorous hypsilophodont dinosaur that lived in Australia during the Early...

Aug 24, 2022 by News Staff

New research led by Curtin University geologists suggests that regions of space with dense interstellar clouds may send more high-energy comets crashing...

Aug 10, 2022 by News Staff

Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is unclear. An artist’s concept of meteors impacting the ancient...

Jul 25, 2022 by News Staff

The whale shark (Rhincodon typus), which have been reported up to 18 m long, is the largest known extant fish species. This creatrure is a filter feeder...

Jun 1, 2022 by News Staff

A single plant or ‘clone’ of the Poseidon’s ribbon weed (Posidonia australis), a species of seagrass that occurs in the southern half of Australia,...

May 25, 2022 by News Staff

Burn marks discovered on the 50,000-year-old eggshell fragments several years ago suggested the first Australians cooked and ate large eggs from extinct...

May 11, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from West Virginia University have found ancient cells of prokaryotes and eukaryotes within fluid inclusions in halite crystals from the Neoproterozoic...

May 6, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-identified species of screw palm, named Pandanus estellae, is significant because it provides credible pre-Pleistocene evidence of the genus...

May 3, 2022 by News Staff

Despite several important studies, Indigenous fisheries generally receive less attention from scholars and managers than the 17th-20th century capitalist...