Kangaroos reveal ‘upside-down’ evolution
New research led by Flinders University argues thick tooth enamel helped kangaroos chart an unconventional evolution story, compared to the animals of other continents. A 50-million-year […]
Palaeontology
Toothed platypus lived 25m years ago
Australia’s platypus, one of the world’s most enigmatic animals, had an exotic origin story, according to an exciting discovery by Flinders University palaeontologists. They have described […]
Fresh eyes on Gondwana fish head
Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land […]
Dinosaur with a good nose for food
In a surprising new study, Australia’s most famous plant-eating dinosaur has been described as a “picky eater with a nose for good food” when it roamed […]
Bizarre anatomy of an ancient fish
A new fossil discovery in China has given new insights into an apex predator from 425 million years ago. The newly described bony fish, named Megamastax […]
New insights into ancient ‘bin chicken’
Islands are famous for producing some of the world’s strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands […]
New pieces link fish puzzle
New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years […]
1m-year-old ‘lost world’ discovered
Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa’s North Island, the first time a large […]
Ancient case of microbial death
A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous […]