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The plant takes its name from the colonial botanist Joseph Banks, but the coastal banksia's history goes way back to ancient times.
This ancient cat-sized animal lived millions of years ago and had features not found in any of today's mammals.
These trackways offer rare insights about ancient life in a stressful, hostile environment during the Early Jurassic.
A record of sea-level change from 400 million years ago in South Africa, reveals how ecosystems and environments collapsed at the South Pole.
Australia's slowly heading north to one day become part of Asia, but a study of the rocks tell us that's not the first time there's been a connection.
Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.
You might recognise Spinosaurus, from Jurassic Park 3, but did you realise it is 100% an African dinosaur?
Researchers have found a small piece of a "lost continent" buried underneath the lava on Mauritius.
History is writ large in the remote areas around Woomera and the Nullarbor: from the fossils of microscopic, cell-like creatures to ancient stone tools to the deitrus of rocket tests and the painful legacy of the Maralinga atomic blasts.
Dinosaur bones unearthed at one of Australia's richest fossil sites have introduced us to a new species: Savannasaurus, one of a family of huge dinosaurs that trekked here more than 100 million years ago.
South west Australia is home to an astonishing number of plants and some of the country's weirdest wildlife. Now we need to protect it.
New evidence shows marked similarities between two fossils – one from Brazil, the other South Africa. This confirms compelling geological findings that continents were once one giant land mass.
The drama and somewhat unintentional humour of first one and eventually three ships getting caught in heavy sea ice in the Southern Ocean has been closely followed since before Christmas. The images of…
WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Currently The Conversation…
Traces of the supercontinent Gondwana in the Indian Ocean have been discovered by a German-Australian team of marine geologists…
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Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne
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