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Extinct no more: protecting the night parrot

The secret south-western Queensland site where night parrots were rediscovered may soon be preserved as a protected area.

99% of species that have ever lived are extinct. It’s a miracle the ancestors of our species made it through the ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions alive.

Dinosaur ‘lovers’ preserved together in the Gobi Desert are the best evidence yet of a fossilised mating pair.

How do you pick five pieces of classical music to complement a discussion that ranges from dinosaurs and birds to museums and astronomy?

A new Australian Geographic poster features the most accurate illustrations of Aussie dinosaurs ever created.

Known as kakarratul and itjaritjari to Aboriginal people, the marsupial mole of the dune deserts is a wonderful example of evolution in action.

South Australian museum study shows how birds were born.

A new herbivorous dinosaur from Siberia spreads feathers far and wide.

Changyuraptor had the longest feathers of any known dinosaur.

The discovery of a prehistoric, supersized, carnivorous platypus helps to fill in the family history of this unusual and iconic Aussie species.