Caption Portrait of Paleontologist Professor Tim Flannery holding a tiny tooth fragment dated at one hundred million years old (and projected at scale in background) on site at the Australian Museum ...

Six monotremes living in the same place at the same time, 100 million years ago at Lightning Ridge, NSW. Clockwise from lower left: Opalios splendens, a newly described species dubbed an ‘echidnapus’; ...

16 December, 2022, Sydney: Australia, home to the most unusual animal species on the planet that defy imagination, can now lay claim to being the wellspring of modern mammal evolution. Published in ...

Professor Kris Helgen (left) and Professor Tim Flannery with examples of modern mammal skulls on display at the Australian Museum following the publication of a recent scientific paper and the local ...

The team behind the research say it indicates that Australia once had an "age of monotremes" - in which the incredibly rare order of animals were abundant and dominant. "It’s like discovering a whole ...

If textbooks ever made you believe mammals like humans, cats, and kangaroos first evolved somewhere up north, think again. A remarkable discovery from Australia has flipped our understanding of mammal ...