3+ day, 46+ min ago  (839+ words) In a surprising new study, Australia's most famous plant-eating dinosaur has been described as a "picky eater with a nose for good food" when it roamed across the continent around 96 million years ago. After examining different parts of the skull…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (390+ words) A new fossil discovery in China has given new insights into an apex predator from 425 million years ago. The newly described bony fish, named Megamastax amblyodus, had weird clusters of teeth which uncover a critical step in the evolution of…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (655+ words) Flinders University palaeontology researchers " with local fossil experts " have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the Plains-wanderer, once lived across South Australia's South-East during wetter times up to 60, 000 years ago. The experts link a phase of pronounced drying from about 17, 000 years…...