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 ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest 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 ...

The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the animal did in life, before being stuffed in storage and forgotten about.

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 ...