Scientists have found toad testes are about 30 per cent bigger in the pest's core region,than on the edges of the"invasion front".
Australian scientists have identified the oldest modern human remains outside of Africa,dated to at least 210,000 years ago in Greece.
Scientists have identified a species of extinct sea creature after 500 million-year-old fossils were found on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
Queensland scientists have used cutting-edge genetic mapping techniques to turn the current theory of how animals evolved on its head.
"We didn't expect this at all,"said the study co-leader."We were like,'Whoa,what's happening?"'
Researchers have upended what they knew about vision with the discovery of deep sea fish who can see a rainbow in the deep dark of the ocean.
The dinosaur,Ambopteryx longibrachium,lived about 163 million years ago.
The right half of the lower jaw of a Denisovan adolescent,including two teeth,dating from 160,000 years ago,was found in a cave in the Gansu province of China.
This species that lived 95 million years ago sported a lobster-like shell,legs flattened like oars,wrench-like claws and huge eyes protruding from its head.
A new species of ancient humans,different from modern man but still recognisably human,has been discovered,adding another branch to the human family tree.
Scientists thought they knew what these 500-million year old creatures looked like but an Australian National University researcher has changed that.