Two newly discovered species of quokka-sized kangaroos, which lived 18 million years ago in the Queensland rainforest, show evolution in the act of giving kangaroos a taste for leaves.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Fossils
Displaying 101 - 120 of 396 articles
Spoiler: lots more floods.
The lack of large numbers of fossils makes it hard to study sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs. But a new statistical approach offers insight into this question and others across science.
Baby Yingliang is a perfectly preserved oviraptorosaur embryo, a species where findings reveal the connections between dinosaurs and birds.
Why our chance discovery of an Arthropleura as long as an alligator, while on holiday on a beach in northern England, was such a landmark moment.
The little dinosaur is curled up inside its shell the same way birds do before hatching, shedding new light on the link between the behaviour of dinosaurs and modern birds.
Genyornis newtoni was one of the biggest birds ever to walk the earth. And new research shows its mysterious extinction may have come amid a bout of widespread bone disease as its lake home dried out.
We studied 8,000 primate teeth and finally confirmed that humans are not the only living primate to suffer from cavities. But there are interesting differences.
A 5-million-year-old fossil that sat collecting dust in a Melbourne museum for more than a century has rewritten the evolutionary history of turtles in prehistoric Australia’s tropical climate.
Studying the lower back allows researchers to understand how the species’ anatomy was adapted for different kinds of movement.
A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.
If scientific research is to take decolonization seriously, names for species should reflect this approach and consider the political, social and emotional implications.
The anatomy of the teeth in the cranium and its bones show that it belongs to an extinct cousin of the living African savanna and forest elephants.
In 2015, a published article described the fossil of a four-legged snake. New research has revealed that it is in fact a lizard, and the fossil is the centre of a scientific ethics debate.
The fossil material was recovered from the surface of a tight, narrow passage that can only be accessed with difficulty by one person at a time.
The complex social behaviour in early dinosaurs observed in a new study lines up with other fossil evidence that dinosaurs were more bird-like than crocodilian-like.
The oldest fossil evidence for dinosaurs in Australia came as a surprise when it was dug out by coal miners working in Ipswich.
Studying these deposits gives scientists information about how past environments change. That, in turn, gives us informed estimates on how climates and environments will change in the near future.
A recent discovery of a sponge fossil may be the oldest known animal fossil, extending the evolutionary timeline by hundreds of millions of years.
Fossilized comb jellies, or ctenophores, are rare because the creatures are almost completely soft-bodied. Rare fossil finds are helping us learn more about ancient animals and evolution.
Top contributors
-
Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
-
Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
-
Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
-
Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
-
Associate Professor, Vertebrate Palaeontology Group, Flinders University
-
Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
-
Professor, Southern Cross University
-
Research Assistant in Palaeontology, University of Bristol
-
Research associate, Curtin University
-
Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Lecturer, University of Cape Town
-
Professor, Flinders University
-
Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
-
Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
