The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never ...

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

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Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in ...

The dusty plains of Western Australia’s Kimberley region are a long way from the ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

Jeffrey Stilwell is an Associate Professor (Adj.) at Monash University and a Research Associate at the Australian Museum. Funding for the amber research has come from Monash University, Australian ...

The remnants of the ancient vertebrae — believed to be one of the largest whale fossils ever found in Australia — was recovered from under about 1.5 feet of sand on Thursday.