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Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian desert. This extraordinary specimen, found in the renowned McGraths Flat ...

Fossils and DNA reveal how climate change is shrinking the habitat of an Australian lizard and threatening its future ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

An extinct koala species has been discovered in Western Australia. Climate change 28,000 years ago erased its habitat.