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Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...

Nearly half of all living vertebrate diversity can be traced back to a single lineage of lobe-finned fishes (piscine sarcopterygians) that radiated during the Palaeozoic Era. In recent years, the phy...

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Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its…

The Academy has elected 28 new members for 2026, recognising outstanding contributions from ancient dinosaur discoveries to next-generation electronics.

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land […]

IntroductionThe ‘osteolepiforms’ are an extinct order of lobe-finned fishes that had a cosmopolitan distribution, which are often considered for their proxim...

Flinders University is seeking motivated and innovative Associate Lecturer, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer to join our Natural Sciences team ...

Palaeo Jam is a podcast exploring a range of issues in science and the community, using the multidisciplinary aspects of, and public fascination with, palaeontology. Palaeo Jam uses fossils, and other...

Special exhibition: visit Tiktaalik and other Devonian fossils of fishes from the Canadian Arctic, at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa.

Coelacanths are a group of fossil fishes with strange, limb-like fins and an unusual diphycercal tail. Although well known to paleontologists, coelacanths disappear from the fossil record toward the ...

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From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.

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When we look at the world around us, we see a wondrous variety of living things. How do species evolve into all these different forms? UChicago scientists explain.

CAVEPS 2025. You are invited to attend the 19th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS). It will be held from 24th - 30th of Nov 2025 on Kaurna Yarta at...

The handfish looked as if it had just "flopped out of the water" when it was discovered by an office worker in central Hobart.

<p>This is the original slab found in 1955, collected by a road worker who was working approximately 10 km west of Canowindra. During this process he unearthed a large rock slab with unusual &ldquo;fo...

There is nothing to stop de-extinction companies using specimens from museum collections, despite little Māori support for reviving lost native species.

Analysis of a fossil trackway from&nbsp;the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...