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 ...

The dusty plains of Western Australia’s Kimberley region are a long way from 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 skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

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

A study by the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the University of Bonn has shown that pH value is crucial for sperm motility in sea urchins and salmon. An increase in pH ...

Sharks are ancient creatures—even older than land dinosaurs —and they’ve evolved to swim in almost all the world’s ocean waters. Still, many scientists suspected that the animals didn’t live in ...

If modern sharks seem intimidating, their prehistoric ancestors were even more extraordinary. Long before today’s great ...

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