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 U.S. sees more shark attacks than any other country, but fewer fatalities than Australia. Dive into the figures to see ...

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 ...

Australia recorded the most fatal shark attacks in the world last year. There were nine fatal unprovoked attacks worldwide in 2025 according to the International Shark Attack File released by the ...

Fatal shark attacks more than doubled in 2025, reveals a new report. There was also a 38.3% increase in the number of people ...

While global shark bites increased from 2024 to 2025, they still returned to near-average levels last year with 65 unprovoked ...

While Florida leads the U.S. in shark bites, California stands out for fatal attacks, with the nation's only shark-related death in 2025. Global unprovoked attacks increased to 65 incidents with nine ...

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 ...