Very few bilby and bandicoot fossils have ever been found. Four new discoveries help fill in the picture of how these elusive animals evolved.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Palaeontology
Displaying 61 - 80 of 192 articles
Scientists have long believed that sharks were the first vertebrates to evolve teeth. Our new study reveals a more complex history.
Given tens of millions of years, wildly improbable events – like primates crossing oceans – are almost a given.
A transcript of episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including an interview on Israel’s foreign policy options following its recent election.
Gigantic flying reptiles had impressive wingspans of up to 12 metres – and a special trick in their necks.
The environmental, cultural and scientific sensitivity of some sites, and rarity of some fossils, means amateur fossil collecting comes with huge risks.
‘Tetrapods’ were the first fish to evolve lungs and walk onto land. They were also our ancestors. Now, a new study sheds light on the size and shape of these unique animals’ brains.
Our new study has found younger tyrannosaurs would have hunted small prey.
This is the oldest genome recovered from a non-permafrost environment.
The study reveals changes in the functions of melanin over 500 million years.
Kate Winslet plays palaeontologist Mary Anning in the film Ammonite. The love story may be fictional — but how does the science stand up?
New fossil detective work sheds light on the life of megalodon, the biggest predatory shark ever discovered.
Ancient fatty molecules, once believed to be traces of some of the first animals to live on Earth, may have been produced by algae instead.
The end-Triassic mass extinction was a cataclysm for the world’s prehistoric species, killed off by volcanoes that altered Earth’s seas and skies. But new research shows it didn’t happen when we thought.
The assumption that the lateral semicircular canal of the inner ear can be used to reconstruct head posture in extinct species has long remained unchallenged.
If albanerpetontids were around today, they’d easily fit in your hand. And although their bones are found all over the world, these unique amphibians eluded experts for a long time.
Did Neanderthal military superiority delay our migration out of Africa?
Tooth fossils from NSW have confirmed sauropods weren’t exclusive to Queensland. They’re also providing a first look at how these colossal dinosaurs fed from Australia’s land.
Fossils reveal that dinosaurs’ flying cousins become twice as efficient at flying over 150 million years.
New study used X-rays of the teeth of early mammals’ to show they were more like cold blooded reptiles.
Job Board
-
Administration Lead
-
Economics Editor
-
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services)
-
Chief People & Culture Officer
-
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Construction and Project Management
Top contributors
-
Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
-
Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
-
Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
-
Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
-
Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
-
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
-
Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
-
Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
-
Research Assistant in Palaeontology, University of Bristol
-
Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Portsmouth
-
Professor, Palaeobiology, University College Cork
-
Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Edinburgh
-
PhD candidate, Curtin University
-
Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University
