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66 million years ago, birds survived the calamity that wiped out all prehistoric dinosaurs. But could birds once again evolve into their long lost ancestors?
You can gauge a dinosaur’s body mass either by reconstructing it as accurately as possible, or by scaling its leg bones against those of today’s animals. Research shows both methods work well together.
These megafauna were the largest land animals to live in Australia since the time of the dinosaurs.
A ‘game-changing’ fossil pterosaur suggests these species could easily fly between continents, helping to explain why similar specimens have been found all over the world.
Megalodons are the latest Hollywood monster to leap out of the fossil record, but what else is lurking in prehistoric seas?
New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
New research reveals that New Zealand once had its own species of black swan, the Poūwa.
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Associate Professor, Southern Cross University
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong
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Research associate, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Queensland Museum, and Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient DNA, University of Otago
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Assistant professor, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Research Fellow in Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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PhD candidate, Curtin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer, University of New England
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
