The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
One of Australia's rarest marsupials spotted in exciting new study
Unlike their ground-dwelling relatives, they spend their lives in treetops, feeding on leaves and vines.
Meet The World’s Most ‘Safeguarded’ Tree—A Jurassic Survivor Thought Extinct Until 1994
The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...
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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird
A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...
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Dinomummy : the life, death, and discovery of Dakota, a dinosaur from Hell Creek
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Collagen discovered in 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil
The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.
New genus and species within Ornithomimidae dinosaur family identified in Mexico
A team of geologists, paleontologists, and climate scientists with members from institutions in Mexico, the U.S., and Spain ...
‘Going out with a bang’: Cape man’s final wish soon to take off
Chafer explained, “The spacecraft comes into the atmosphere, and it burns up almost like a shooting star. Sharrow will be ...
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Scientists say they have figured out where dinosaurs came from in remarkable breakthrough
In a new study, scientists are piecing together the mysterious origins of dinosaurs, challenging long-held beliefs about ...
Prehistoric bone bitten by croc-like creature found
The fossilised neck bone of a dinosaur that was bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago has been discovered ...