A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

Shockingly, a fossil dating back 240 million years has finally been formally identified after spending decades hidden inside ...

A unique fossil that is "literally a black piece of coal" found in the dump of a 19th-century coal mine is revealing new insights about life before the rise of dinosaurs. It has also unseated a fossil ...

Indian conservationists Parveen Shaikh and Barkha Subba have been honoured at the 2026 Whitley Awards for their work in ...

For years, a slab of sandstone sat cemented into a retaining wall in a suburban Sydney garden, unremarkable to anyone walking ...

These animals look all wrong. Not wrong like broken, wrong like they belong to a different Earth version. The frilled shark ...

The fire salamander’s bright colors are not just for show—they serve as a warning. Its skin contains toxic substances that can deter or harm predators, making it dangerous despite its calm appearance.

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain ...

Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new study.