Dinosaurs coexisted with flowering plants, but it’s unclear whether they ate them. The study presents a new small theropod dinosaur with remarkable jaw adaptations for eating fruit, providing one of t...

Learn about the vaquita, the world's most endangered marine mammal

A chance and "extremely rare" discovery in an outback fossil pit has uncovered an unknown bird species from more than a hundred million years ago.

Microraptorines were bird-like dinosaurs that possessed some flight adaptations. A new fossil species from the early Cretaceous, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that this group evolved their own flig...

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Help us amp up our efforts. We are raising funds to use toward saving the Academy of Natural Sciences.

"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.

YouTube video by Kasey Snow

YouTube video by Kasey Snow

The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show that its skull functioned differ...

Hobby astronomers partner with a retired NASA engineer to investigate the source of swirling lights seen in the night sky from Central Queensland.

An official government count reveals a devastating population crash.

Three mass bird mortality events believed to be linked to the H5N1 avian flu strain have been recorded on islands off SA, the state's premier has told parliament.

Viviparity is a reproductive mode in which the embryo completes their development inside the female body. Present-day mammals, with the exception of monotrem...

Blood flow rates to long bones of archosaurs reveal high aerobic metabolic rates and endothermy throughout most of their evolutionary history

An expert explains why the H5N1 strain is such a threat to seals worldwide.

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