News
Scientist shed new light on the mystery of the pygmy right whale
Scientists have been shocked to find fossils belonging to the pygmy right whale—typically confined to the Southern Hemisphere, in parts of Italy and Japan.
Tag: palaeontology
Science & Environment
Daily life of Neanderthals revealed from gunk in their teeth
Neanderthals had a very varied diet based on what foods were available to them where they lived. They also knew what to eat when they were sick.
Science & Environment
Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years
The extinction of the giant reptiles, marsupials and birds that once called Australia home has been the subject of much debate, including the role early Australians may have had on their fate.
AustroPalaeo
Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber
The discovery in Myanmar of the fluffy tail of a little dinosaur perfectly preserved in amber has stunned scientists.
Science & Environment
Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
Scientists have long believed that our distant cousins are an ancient group of armoured fish called placoderms. But a new study is casting doubt on that view.
Science & Environment
First dinosaur brain fossil suggests they may have been smarter than we thought
A 133 million-year-old fossil hints that dinosaurs had bigger brains than we’ve realised.
AustroPalaeo
All that glitters: the fossils of Lightning Ridge
Digging for opalised fossils at Lightning Ridge offers a chance to be involved in real science and get a taste for the toils of an opal miner.
Travel with us
Dinosaurs of Argentina
17 days digging for dinosaurs in Argentina with the Australian Geographic editor.
AustroPalaeo
Huge new dinosaur hints at when sauropods arrived Down Under
Twenty-tonne Savannasaurus from western Queensland brings the number of named Australian sauropods to five.
AustroPalaeo
The original Antipodean lion
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.