Fossil link to oldest fish, and life on earth
Flinders University fossil hunters have unearthed a new evolutionary link to the first bony fishes in another step forward to more accurately understand our distant origins. […]
Dodo descendant found in ‘Zealandia’
A new pigeon species, the Zealandian Dove, which is related to the extinct dodo, has been identified by Australian and NZ researchers. New Zealand only has […]
Burrowing into the inner world of snake evolution
Looking inside the head of a snake is so much easier when the snake is a fossil. Flinders University and South Australian Museum postdoctoral researcher Alessandro […]
Going cheep, tiny birds follow the dodo
Not all prehistoric birds came in extra-large sizes. An international team of scientists has identified the fossilised bones of two new species of flightless birds of […]
Tassie tiger and devil do the timewarp
Adelaide fossil hunters have taken a new look at when two early marsupials became extinct on the mainland of southern Australia. They have analysed new radiocarbon […]
Trump faces ferocious fossil fight
Flinders palaeontologist Professor John Long is part of US legal action over President Donald Trump’s move to downsize the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments sites in Utah. […]
KI Keisha digs her fossil experience
High school student Keisha Hadland recently swapped life on Kangaroo Island for excavating the fossils of extinct giant kangaroos. The 17-year-old recipient of this year’s James Moore […]
Flightless fowls of a far-flung nature
Not all fowl are chickens and ducks. Australia’s giant mihirungs (Dromornithidae) were flightless fowl that included some of the most massive birds in the world, such […]
Listen ‘ere: Snake heads point to the past
The evolution of snakes has some fascinated twists and turns, and new research has found evidence even primitive snakes were adept at living underground and moving […]