10+ hour, 12+ min ago  (757+ words) If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a "koala paradox: endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically diverse in some regions, genetically depleted in others. Koalas…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1012+ words) Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth. Long extinct, this predatory fish (Megamastax amblyodus) was an ancient forerunner of…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (392+ words) What did the face of our ancestors look like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed face of "Little Foot" " the most complete biological Australopithecus specimen that ever existed. The search for human origins has never been more fruitful, with fossil…...

2+ day, 16+ min ago  (528+ words) Paleontologists have revealed a bizarre prehistoric creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, and the water-dwelling weirdo was already a "living fossil" when it existed 275 million years ago. Despite predating the dinosaurs, T. amnicola was already an evolutionary relic in…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (607+ words) A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs. The…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (465+ words) DNA evidence points to humans reaching Australia 60,000 years ago'inkl DNA evidence points to humans reaching Australia 60,000 years ago The story of how people reached Australia and the Pacific has never sat still. Bits of evidence have shifted it back and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (477+ words) National Park Service employees may have just uncovered one of the longest dinosaurs on Earth. Crews working on construction at the Dinosaur National Monument's Utah parking lot last September stumbled upon the first fossils uncovered at the site in more…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (428+ words) Researchers have shed light on the final centuries of the woolly rhinoceros after studying a hairy lump of meat from the stomach of an ancient wolf cub that became mummified in the Siberian permafrost. The beautifully preserved remains of a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (756+ words) For more than seven decades, they sat in a university museum as prized specimens: two ancient bones that appeared to belong to the world's youngest woolly mammoths ever discovered. Then scientists ran a DNA test, and the fossils told an…...