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To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The Kunming-Montreal agreement is not legally binding but it will require signatories to report their progress towards…

Amid a call to “string ’em up” and a possible $300,000 fine, cooler West Coast heads just want a pair of fossil fossickers to hand back their ill-gotten gains

Glaciers have been present somewhere on Earth for at least 60 million years, a period stretching back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. That’s the key finding of our new research, which pushes the date when the planet was last glacier-free back by at least 26 million years.

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The place we call Australia today was in many ways vastly different 80,000 years ago.

Researchers discover "true giant wombats" weighing up to 130 kilograms that lived in central Queensland about 80,000 years ago.

We've been discussing the "Anthropocene" for more than two decades, but it's not an official geological term. A group of scientists are voting this week to try and change that.

In remote outback Queensland, new fossils are being unearthed "every day", but it's not always palaeontologists who are making the most astonishing discoveries.

Meet Tasmaniosaurus, the ancient reptile fossil found in West Hobart.