Evolution has created amazing creatures. Some animals have food-inspired names. The chocolate chip sea star resembles a ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

Researchers have found evidence of animals sailing across the oceans on accidental rafts of vegetation, fallen trees, and ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back by 35 million years. The team’s conclusions also mean that the split ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...