Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New ...

In today's video we are hunting some VERY rare sediments for Florida. These sediments are Late Oligocene to Early Miocene in ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all.

1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although there are several early Miocene sites, many of their catarrhine taxa ...

Now, a new species has been discovered — but it’s 16 million years old. A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican ...

Crucially, the study concludes that the Longmen Shan klippes experienced both thrusting and gliding process and may be eventually emplaced during the Late Eocene-Early Miocene. During the Late ...