Big bird bones show slow breeding
Big bones from the extinct ‘thunder bird’ or dromornithid, excavated in the northern reaches of the Flinders Ranges and near Alice Springs, have yielded new insights […]
Aussie vulture claws back from the past
Australia’s first fossil vulture has been confirmed more than 100 years after it was first described as an eagle. The discovery, by Flinders University and the […]
Prehistoric fish led by their nose
The evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been wound back more than 400 million years, thanks to the examination of fossil remains […]
Giant roo relic found in PNG
Palaeontologists from Flinders University in South Australia have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea. The new […]
Digging in to our ancient past
A team of Australian and international scientists have discovered thousands of well preserved ancient specimens from the Miocene epoch (23m – 5m years ago) in inland […]
Ancient fish had a ‘big brain’
Sophisticated CT scanning of the cranium of a Queensland fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first left the water to invade land […]
New study revises fossil discovery
An international team of scientists have debunked an earlier description of a fossil thought to be the remarkable missing link between lizards and snakes. The new […]
Nullarbor kangaroo was able to climb trees
Flinders University palaeontology researchers have helped to discover and describe a new species of climbing kangaroo. The scientists from Flinders and Perth’s Murdoch University found the […]
Brains ‘primed’ for life on land
A new study adds another layer to the remarkable evolutionary transition of life from water to land on Earth. The international study of the prehistoric ‘relic’ […]