Citizen scientists uncover dinosaur toe bones and claws along Australia’s southern coast, sharpening insight into ancient polar life.

We still don’t know the species that laid the egg, so it’s just as well we have no way of getting it to hatch.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

ONE of the UK’s most popular beaches has been forced to close to the public indefinitely. Access to Durdle Door beach, famous for its unique rock formation and fossil hunting, remains shut ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

A $31 million drilling effort is exploring whether ancient salt caverns can become Australia’s clean energy backbone.

Key PointsResearch based on fossil evidence has confirmed the theory that echidnas and platypuses descended from an aquatic ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a ...

Researchers have confirmed that a fossilised dinosaur footprint found in a suburban Brisbane quarry 68 years ago is the real deal, and dates back 230 million years. The fossil was discovered by ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the earliest part of the Late Triassic period 230 million years ago. The ...

University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Anthony Romilio says dinosaurs roamed Australia a lot earlier than previously thought. Video via AAP Australia doing what no other major nation is Trump ...

Researchers have found some of the biggest dinosaur footprints ever. They are so huge that an adult could curl up inside one without a problem. It’s wild to imagine, honestly. This kind of find really ...