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Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...
The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils ...
Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.
Learn more about the lineages of Australian and South American tree frogs, which separated approximately 55 million years ago at the latest, according to a new analysis of fossils.
In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...
Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...
In today's video we are hunting some VERY rare sediments for Florida. These sediments are Late Oligocene to Early Miocene in ...
questions some of the methodologies used to construct the new family tree but notes that the new placement makes sense as Deinosuchus fossils show an array of traits seen in alligators and ...
The recent discovery of fossil evidence of a tree species now considered endemic to the Western Ghats, in a coalfield in ...
Why did some animals from ancient eras become fossils, while others simply disappeared without a trace? The answer, at least in part, may lie within their own bodies, according to a study from the ...
"The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years – way before dinosaurs – and was thought to be ...
Students’ unions at two universities have voted overwhelmingly to boycott fossil fuel recruiters. Non-profit People & Planet coordinated the successful student-led Fossil Free Careers campaigns ...