A 19-million-year-old currawong fossil found in New Zealand sheds light on the ancient birdlife that once thrived in the ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Magpies may be considered Aussie immigrants, but new research reveals that their relatives lived in Aotearoa New Zealand 19 ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ecology.

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the landscape.

The evolution of the shark is not what most people would expect. Instead of sharks evolving from a massive predator, the ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

Hundreds of animals flee cartel chaos, violence after wildlife refuge faced with threats Tigers, elephants and lions once owned by drug lords moved amid constant gunfire in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico ...

A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.

Today, central New South Wales is mostly arid farmland. But, when the fish were alive during the Miocene epoch, the region was a lush, temperate rainforest.