Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the end-Permian mass extinction.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

The cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction and extreme global warming prompted the emergence of modern marine ecosystems at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (or Mesozoic era), some 252 million y ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

Dinosaurs dominate the imagination, but Earth’s deep history is crowded with other rulers, from armored fish and giant insects to saber-toothed hunters and whales shaped for warm ancient seas. These ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Fossils that lay almost forgotten in museum collections for over 40 years have now shed light on the earliest global radiations of land-living animals adapting to life in the sea. Around 250 million ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast ...

Researchers have rediscovered 250 million-year-old fossils, revealing that ancient, crocodile-like "sea-salamanders" inhabited Australia's coasts ...