The animal was a thylacine, more commonly known as a Tasmanian tiger. Thousands of the predator called the island home when ...

including bones and teeth. The research was published on the ocassion of Australia’s National Threatened Species Day, which marks the death of the very last Tasmanian tiger on 7 September 1936.

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

causing researchers to question whether pterosaurs were even capable of flight. The newly discovered fossils preserved 3D structures within the delicate wing bones, which typically are found ...

Scientists working at a site on the mainland found 215 ... wing and cranial bones, including a complete lower jaw. The researchers believe that rather than living alone, pterosaurs lived in ...

Paleontologists recovered parts of the jaws and teeth from the fossil site, and the bones ... Australia from suspected neglect, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Thousands of new species ...