A patch of farmland in New South Wales has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable fossil sites. Hidden beneath ...

The new study found that they lost their arboreal habitat due to a drying climate, a dire warning for the modern-day marsupials that face a similar threat ...

Hundreds of whale fossils, including those from extinct species new to science, range in age from recent to five million ...

Mammals first appeared about 240 million years ago when all the Earth's continents were joined together. Soon after this, and particularly when the continents started to drift apart, they began to ...

Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen ...

Scientists discovered a fossil-rich whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, offering new clues about ancient marine life and whale evolution.

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval ...

Their fossils are left in the form of imprints in sedimentary rock layers, whole skeletons or single bones fossilised within ...