A giant fossil of the ancestor of modern-day Australian kangaroos that went extinct around 42,000 years ago has been discovered by paleontologists in a finding that sheds more light on the evolution ...

Astronomers have identified a massive red giant star with a newly detected companion that appears to be stirring up trouble in the system, reshaping gas and dust in ways that could end in a dramatic ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

An artist’s impression of the newly described fossil species Protemnodon viator and its relative Protemnodon anak, compared at scale to the living red kangaroo and eastern grey kangaroo.

An artist’s impression of southeastern South Australia during the Pleistocene epoch showing various plants and animals that lived there alongside Protemnodon. The almost one-tonne Zygomaturus trilobus ...

A dozen wallabies, a pair of wallaroos and a classic Big Red kangaroo named Jack comprise an unusual marsupial breeding operation Kevin Bell and his family run from their home in Hanna. "People don't ...