Unravelling the mystery of how life in Antarctica survived past ice ages involved sampling some of the oldest museum records. When combined with a dating database, a familiar story is revealed.
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When, how, where and why did complex hierarchical societies evolve? Understanding how we got to this point in time may help us address global challenges, like climate change.
All the evidence points to one thing: humans and woolly mammoths certainly lived side by side. But did humans hunt mammoths too?
The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.
DNA from ancient eastern moa bones is unlocking the secrets of their survival during the last ice age, and providing lessons for today’s threatened species.
The key to protecting wolverines around the world is to reduce trapping, minimize predator control pressures, and to protect and connect large blocks of intact habitat they need to survive.
The Earth is a resilient planet, but people are altering it in ways that may take centuries to reverse.
Biologists have used ancient DNA, preserved in fossil bones for millennia, to study the evolution of large species, but now they can employ it to study small animals like lizards and frogs.
Permafrost in the Yukon is a treasure trove of ancient environmental DNA, but climate change threatens these rich historical archives.
A review of studies of Parramatta demonstrates an extensive deep-time archive of Indigenous activity extending over 14,000 years.
Three things define an ice age: Earth has to be cold enough for a long time, ice grows to cover significant areas, and it lasts for millions of years.
The New Mexico findings could rewrite the history of human migration to the Americas.
The Earth is constantly changing in natural ways, but most of those changes are very slow. Humans are speeding up other changes with global warming.
Ice Age glaciers can help us track the jet stream 12,000 ago, and by comparing its path today we can see how it’s moving northwards, changing weather patterns and indicating climate change.
The parable of the dragons underlines the need to apprehend glacier disappearance in a transdisciplinary way, to create a dialogue between the physical, ecological and philosophical sciences.
Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous ‘toothed’ bird that lived for a period of about 60 million years after dinosaurs.
Some 13,000 years ago, an adult carrying in a child walked 1.5km in mud at great speed in the presence of hungry predators.
These findings are in stark contrast with the original worldview that suggested the entire globe was at a maximum glaciated state around 20 000 years ago.
Tomanowos, aka the Willamette Meteorite, may be the world’s most interesting rock. Its story includes catastrophic ice age floods, theft of Native American cultural heritage and plenty of human folly.
Portable artworks have never before been found in the most ancient contexts of Southeast Asia-Australasia.
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Professor, Griffith University
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient DNA, University of Otago
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Principal Academic in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
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PhD Candidate, Griffith University
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Professor of Molecular Evolution, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Climate Prediction Group Leader, CSIRO
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ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
