
Raging bushfires started 60 million years ago
Bushfires may have been a dominant feature of the Australian outback for much longer than experts thought.
Bushfires may have been a dominant feature of the Australian outback for much longer than experts thought.
While searching for giant rat fossils, scientists have stumbled on the oldest rock carvings in southeast Asia.
Aboriginal Australians didn’t regularly use fire to manage the bush claims a new study, but experts aren’t convinced.
Traditionally thought of as “second-rate mammals”, marsupial carnivores were remarkably diverse, says a new study.
The extinction of Australia’s ‘megafauna’ was caused by long-term hunting, new research suggests.
The top accolades for Aussie science are awarded for work on a fossil fish giving birth, cloned insulin and blood clotting.
The discovery of a 20-million-year-old fossil suggests marsupial moles evolved in rainforests, not deserts.
From killers of the freezing Antarctic wastes to titanic herbivores, Australian dinos are being dug up in great numbers.
An ancient predatory bilby has been discovered by Australian scientists.
Scientists have disputed the findings of a bone thought to belong to Australia’s first-known Tyrannosaurus relative.