Sia Duff / South Australian Museum
Experts say the ‘reimagining’ of the South Australian Museum will destroy its crucial contributions to science.
Artist’s impression of a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach.
Sergey Krasovskiy
Ichthyosaurs were the last giant reptiles to rule our oceans.
An Egyptian slit-faced bat, Nycteris thebaica .
Mariëtte Pretorius
The scarcity of bat fossils is more than a palaeontological puzzle: it has implications for bat conservation strategies today.
Artist’s impression of the prehistoric landscape and creatures that Protemnodon would have walked among.
Peter Schouten
Some extinct kangaroos may barely have hopped at all.
Flowers may seem fragile but they are ancient.
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The origin date for flowers is a source of debate among scientists – but a new approach may help bring clarity to the question.
Eoraptor lunensis lived roughly 230 million years ago, at a time when dinosaurs were small and rare.
Jordan Harris courtesy of Kristi Curry Rogers
By examining fossilized bone tissue, a new study finds rapid growth was an asset for survivors of the Great Dying 250 million years ago, Earth’s largest mass extinction event.
People have collected fossil horses throughout North America for centuries.
Florida Museum/Mary Warrick
Horse fossils are abundant and widespread across North America. Scientists often use their long history to illustrate how species evolve in response to a changing environment.
Archaeopteryx and Hesperornis should be on the lists of any dino bird watcher.
If you love learning about dinosaurs don’t let crowdpleasers like the T Rex distract you from the fascinating birdlife that once roamed the Earth.
A replica fossil of the titanosaur Patagotitan , one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered. It would have weighed about 70 tons (63.5 metric tons.)
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Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.
The Tridentinosaurus counterfeit
Valentina Rossi
A lizard fossil that was thought to be the best preserved ever has turned out to have fake skin.
An artist’s impression of the new pterosaur species, Cheoptera
Mark Witton/Natural History Museum
The Isle of Skye has a rich palaeontological heritage, so perhaps it’s no surprise scientists made an important discovery there.
Artist’s impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in southern China.
Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University)
What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.
Massospondylus skeleton.
Courtesy Dr K Chapelle.
Some time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho.
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Impress your niece or nephew with these T rex facts.
Themba Hadebe / AP
How, when and where did modern humans evolve? Nobody has all the answers, but studying rock and dirt can put the debate on firmer footing.
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Small holes in baby dinosaur bones add to the growing mass of evidence that the ancient creatures were warm-blooded and highly active.
Pteranodon was a large-bodied pterosaur.
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Reptiles don’t generally care for their offspring, but some pterosaurs may have bucked the trend.
Kira Westaway
New evidence from contested Laos cave site shows humans reached Southeast Asia at least 68,000 years ago.
Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology
Digital scanning offers a new window on Australia’s unique fossil history, from early multicellular lifeforms to gigantic ‘marsupial lions’.
Life reconstruction of the head of the Australian sauropod Diamantinasaurus matildae.
Elena Marian
Meet Ann: a toothy 95 million-year-old Diamantinasaurus from outback Queensland.