A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

In fact, even though it is now extinct, at one point it was the largest kangaroo to have lived on this Earth. This large animal, which could grow up to 6 feet tall, lived in the Australian ...

During the Ice Age, massive woolly mammoths, cave bears, and dire wolves roamed icy landscapes. Saber-toothed cats hunted ...

Speaking of luxury wool, another prehistoric animal known for its fiber is the ... The chambered nautilus normally lives in the deep ocean around Australia and Indonesia, but if you happen to ...

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without ... Our best estimate is that 9,111 invertebrate species have become extinct in Australia since 1788. This dwarfs the current ...

The fossil discovered is that of an extinct dolphin-like reptile estimated to have lived more than 100 million years ago in ...

Scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a ...

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without ... is officially listed as extinct by the Australian government. In our study, we used a range of approaches to estimate ...

Cairns Aquarium CEO Daniel Leipnik said the $500,000 trail told the origin story of some of Australia’s most iconic animals ... and their size to become the key animal groups that we know today.” The ...

Fossilised pieces of the animal's jaw bone were found in opal fields in northern New South Wales, alongside evidence of several other ancient and now extinct monotreme species. Officially named ...