1+ day, 3+ hour 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ 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…...

2+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1029+ words) Paranthropus boisei's status as a toolmaker has been hotly debated, but these bones suggest they could have wielded simple tools. (Supplied: Mongle et. al., 2025, Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09594-8) The shape of the bones suggest that their owner, a species called Paranthropus boisei,…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (737+ words) ABC North West Qld The fossil pearl is the largest of its age to be found. (Supplied: Michelle Johnston) A fossil pearl found in the outback has been verified as 100 million years old. The find is the largest and highest…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (156+ words) Kris Helgen has helped name and discover around 100 species of mammal, travelling to many fascinating places to find them. He's traversed volcanic caters in Papua New Guinea,savanna grasslands of Kenya, and ventured deep into the forests of the Andes....

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1080+ words) Fossilised gut contents from 'Judy' the Diamantinasaurus showed the species ate leaf material from tall conifer trees. (Illustration: Travis Tischler) Rare fossilised gut contents from a 95-million-year-old sauropod found near Winton, Queensland, confirms a long-held theory that this group of…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1223+ words) A study of a 100 million-year-old bone suggests the ancient relative of the echidna and the platypus was semiaquatic " and echidnas moved back to the land from the water as they evolved. This water-dwelling monotreme may have been an ancestor or…...