5+ hour, 46+ min ago  (13+ words) Hopes 'extremely rare' fossil will unlock answers about evolution of whales'Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (501+ words) Artist's reconstruction of Aphaneramma " a crocodile-like predator " from fossils found in WA's Kimberley. (Supplied: Pollyanna von Knorring) The chance rediscovery of fossil specimens first found in WA's Kimberley in the 1960s has shed new light on an ancient predator. Palaeontologists have…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (724+ words) Dendrochronology involves the use of drills to look at the growth rings in trees. (Supplied: DCCEEW) A study provides a record of how a changing climate has shaped the Gwydir Wetlands over centuries." The oldest tree discovered on the site…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (508+ words) Alan Evered, 92, has been volunteering at the dig site. (Supplied: Wendy White) More than 60 dinosaur bones have been unearthed from rocks at the site of a fossil dig on Victoria's Bass Coast." The region is renowned for its rich cache…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (854+ words) Volunteers were given power tools to clean the 100-million-year-old fossil." (ABC Western Qld: Jay Carstens) People have travelled from across the country and the world to work on a 100-million-year-old fossil. A recent cancer survivor who drove solo from Western…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1080+ words) Greenland sharks can live for up to 400 years " so it's possible that some sharks alive today may have been born before the British colonised Australia. (Wikimedia: Hemming1952, Greenland shark, CC BY SA 4.0) Swimming at a crawl with cloudy eyes and mottled…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1736+ words) Mutthi Mutthi woman Tanya Charles says Mungo Lady put her hand up and rewrote the "big story" of Australia. (ABC News: Margaret Burin) Tanya Charles says her ancestors' history may not be written down in books, but it is written…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1065+ words) A new study suggests there was more than one species of tyrannosaur in North America at the same time. (Supplied: Anthony Hutchings) A controversial dinosaur fossil previously believed to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex is in fact a different species…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (487+ words) This duck-billed dinosaur was only a few years old when it died. " (The University of Chicago via AP: Tyler Keillor) Two fossilised mummies unearthed by scientists in Wyoming in the USA have revealed a surprising detail. A thin layer of…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1473+ words) Giant echidnas, short-faced kangaroos, Diprotodontidae and a Thylacine are among the fossils of extinct animals that have been found in Mammoth Cave in the South West of WA. (Illustration: Peter Schouten) New research into the Australian fossil record suggests there…...