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Animals can evolve separately but end up evolving toward other species, too, or even spontaneously evolve the same ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

Mothers are seen as the most devout creatures, be it as human beings or animals. The magnitude of a mother’s love and ...

A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

When most people think of a wombat, they picture cute little furballs that live in Australia. Some people might know that they poop cubes. Others might have heard that the little diggers have an armor ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

A golden era in dinosaur science is driving this fascination with dinosaurs. Around 1,400 dinosaur species are now known from ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) along with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

For close to 40 years, Australians had mistakenly believed one of their cutest wallaby species was likely extinct. The error ...