A jigsaw puzzle: how the platypus swam with dolphins A discovery from a team of scientists have doubled the fossil findings of platypuses that lived 25 million years ago in a lost world. AAP · Apr 29
We found the only kangaroo that doesn’t hop – and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that’s the last living representative of its family. The Conversation · Mar 19, 2025
A new virtual museum reveals 600 million years of Australian fossils in unprecedented 3D detail Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. The Conversation · Jun 1, 2023
Newly described enormous marsupial wandered across Australia 3.5 million years ago In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals. The New Daily · May 31, 2023
Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago Today, 80% of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way. In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals. The Conversation · May 30, 2023
Palaeontologists uncover mystery of marsupial lion bones in Wellington Caves excavation Researchers delving into Wellington Caves in western NSW say bone fracture patterns indicate that many of them had fallen through a hole in the cave ceiling and remained buried there, waiting to be discovered. ABC News · May 4, 2023
Australia's extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore the depths of Mairs Cave in the southern Flinders Ranges. Some 55 metres into the main chamber, they find fossils scattered throughout a boulder pile. Among these fossils are a claw and part of a wing bone that appear… The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023
Tiny SA island cave site reveals possible evidence of human interaction with megafauna Butchery marks on an extinct kangaroo fossil found off the Eyre Peninsula's west coast could reveal a possible human and megafauna relationship. ABC News · Feb 9, 2023