The bone-crushing fossilised jaws were one of three Tasmanian tiger ancestors uncovered by palaeontologists,amid a contentious effort to resurrect the marsupial carnivore.
Two new species that ruled the ancient oceans as crocodile-sized apex predators have been uncovered in NSW.
A billionaire hedge fund founder has splashed around nine times Sotheby’s presale estimate for a stegosaurus skeleton,making it the most valuable fossil sold at an auction.
Scientists led by Tim Flannery have unearthed evidence for a previously unknown “age of monotremes” when egg-laying mammals dominated Australia.
They were shrewd,complex and creative,and we shared the planet with them (and other types of humans) for thousands of years. So why did the Neanderthals die out and not us?
A recently discovered fossil in Germany pushes the origin of cloning sea stars back more than 150 million years in first-ever evidence for the phenomenon.
One of Australia’s most complete fossils to date has emerged from a labyrinth in regional Victoria.
Mega sharks and a bird with a six-metre wingspan graced our shoreline 5 million years ago,and urban explorers can still uncover traces of them at this bayside beach.
By analysing fossils from Chinese caves,Australian scientists have helped uncover one of palaeontology’s biggest mysteries.
The pale-white slab was locked away for a century. New analysis has redefined the history of the ocean and all the creatures that depend on it – including humans.
Nearly 30 years ago a retired farmer found a salamander-like prehistoric amphibian in a sandstone block. It hasn’t been formally identified – until now.