Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

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Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe though probably not for food. The careful ...

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

Most of us imagine the age of the dinosaurs with huge lizards, but many mammals also roamed Earth back then, including the ...

Every breath you take is an ancient inheritance. The rise and fall of your chest, the intercostal muscles pulling your ribs ...

Our study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The ...

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The international award-winning exhibition, Bloodsuckers: Nature’s Vampires, opens today at the Australian Museum (AM) for a six-month run, exploring the remarkable creatures that have inspired ...