Kangaroo-sized flying turkey once roamed Australia
A giant, flying turkey as tall as a kangaroo is among five extinct large megapode birds discovered by palaentologists at Flinders University. All five birds were […]
Flo from Flores is not your mother
New research in Australia has found the tiny ‘hobbit’ people of Asia are not ancestors or even close relatives of modern humans. The most comprehensive study […]
Fish fossil hunter poles apart
Strategic Professor of Palaeontology, Professor John Long, is looking forward to a very cold white Christmas.
Evolution branches in a new direction
The place of humans and other backboned animals in the tree of life has been questioned by Flinders University researchers.
Research adds 10,000 years to human life in the Flinders Ranges
Human settlement in Australia’s arid interior has been reset to about 50,000 years ago – almost 10,000 years earlier than previously reported.
Fossil hunters do the brain warp
An international team of scientists from Flinders University and Sweden are ‘doing the brain warp’ in a bid to understand the evolution of a very ‘brainy’ fish species.
Was the first snake a sea serpent?
Palaeontologists argue the first snakes may have crawled from the sea.
Fossils reveal life cycle of Aussie big bird
The sex life of the biggest bird to have ever roamed the planet has been revealed – and it’s more akin to a goose than an emu.
Aussie duck tales of the unexpected
The ‘flamingo duck’ survived in Australia millions of years longer than anywhere else, says a Flinders researcher.