Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named Telmatomyia talbragarica, it shows a rock-gripping feature once thought ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

An Australian fossil reveals the first lamniform shark, measuring 20 feet long and living 15 million years earlier than believed.

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Prehistoric fossils have led to the discovery of an ancient whale species off the coast of Australia. Scientists said the species, Janjucetus dullardi, is one of the earliest cousins ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong ...

The ocean depths are full of mysteries and monsters. But some of its greatest secrets and behemoths lie not beneath the waves of today, but beneath the rocks of prehistory. Most people have heard of ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

The fossil is estimated to be about 100 million years old. — -- The skeleton of a 100 million-year-old fish "with an incredibly swordfish-like head and monstrous teeth" has been unearthed in the ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...