The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

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 ...

Long before mammals dominated the planet, a powerful survival strategy began to emerge - parental care. During the Permian period, some early synapsids gained an evolutionary edge not through superior ...

Researchers have rediscovered 250 million-year-old fossils, revealing that ancient, crocodile-like "sea-salamanders" ...

The cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction and extreme global warming prompted the emergence of modern marine ecosystems at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (or Mesozoic era), some 252 million y ...

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the ...

Fossils that lay almost forgotten in museum collections for over 40 years have now shed light on the earliest global radiations of land-living animals adapting to life in the sea. Around 250 million ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

A new study has uncovered how strange amphibians that once lived in north-western Western Australia became early evolutionary ...

SCIENTISTS have made a cracking discovery after uncovering mysterious impressions of reptile skin from almost 300million ...