News
Tiny marsupial lion named after Sir David Attenborough
Researchers have uncovered fossil remains of an extinct flesh-eating marsupial lion that weighed about 600g and lived in the tree-tops.
Tag: palaeontology
Wildlife
The world’s biggest cuckoos once roamed the Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor is an arid, treeless expanse today. But several hundred thousand years ago it was home to a menagerie of species, including two newly discovered giant cuckoo-like birds.
Wildlife
GALLERY: Australia’s biggest ever animals
ASIDE FROM THE blue whale, which is thought to be the largest animal that has ever lived, many of today’s creatures are mere pygmies compared with what came before them in Earth’s prehistoric past. Australia’s first human inhabitants would have come face to face with some, such as Diprotodon, Megalania and Thylacoleo.
News
700,000-year-old Hobbit ancestor discovered
Scientists have unearthed fossils from an extinct human species that predates Homo floresiensis by more than half a million years.
News
Remains of bizarre snail-eating marsupial found
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.
AG Society News
Attending the AG Society fossil dig against all odds
Despite her severe disability, Eleanor Beidatsch hopes to embark on an AGS expedition to the opal town of Lightning Ridge this August.
Science & Environment
GALLERY: Mongolia fossil dig
These photos were taken during the AGS 2015 Gobi desert expedition. Our 2016 expedition to the Gobi will take place in September. Sign up here.
AustroPalaeo
Digging for dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert
Join the Australian Geographic Society on a thrilling adventure in Central Asia to hunt for fossils with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
Science & Environment
The first fossilised heart ever found in a prehistoric animal
For centuries, the fossil remains of back-boned animals were studied primarily from their hardened bones. Now palaeontologists can study the softer side of these ancient creatures.
News
‘Hobbits’ extinct much earlier than first thought
A tiny human species discovered in 2003 may have been extinct for much longer than previously thought.