The new Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology offers free access to 600 million years of digital Australian fossils, from enigmatic early lifeforms to gigantic extinct marsupials.
Although long dead, fossil skeletons provide an incredible window into the lifestyle and environment of a remarkable extinct animal.
Fossils found in a field on a farm in New South Wales are yielding a remarkable insight into life 15 million years ago in eastern Australia.
Long ago, almost up until the end of the last ice age, a peculiar giant kangaroo roamed the mountainous rainforests of New Guinea.
Kangaroos have such a taste for leaves that they have evolved the ability to eat them on at least four separate occasions during their evolutionary history, a new fossil discovery reveals.
The eagle was similar in size to the wedge-tailed eagle and preyed upon koalas.
The deep-dive into giant penguins you didn’t know you needed.
The first week of the Australian Opal Centre and Australian Geographic fossil dig at Lightning Ridge has unearthed plenty of fossils and opals.
A new report detailing rare amber findings in Australia and New Zealand is shedding light on the ecology and evolution of polar and subpolar terrestrial ecosystems.
At up to 30cm long and armed with spines for crushing and shredding food, we’ve identified a previously unknown creature that would have been a giant among its neighbours in the waters off modern-day South Australia.