News: Palaeontology
Scientists use koala teeth to map Adelaide's history
Scientists are using koala teeth to learn how Adelaide was settled by Europeans.
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Marine creatures with incredible vision drove an evolutionary arms race
Palaeontologists have helped shed an evolutionary light on a 500-million-year-old deep sea creature.
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Scientists in the news this week: October 2020
‘What even is the economy?’ Citymag has published a three-part series on ‘how SA makes money and stuff’ featuring several University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates.
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Future Fellows to advance key marine ecology and palaeontology research
University of Adelaide scientists have been awarded more than $1.5 million to study environmental and climate change, but in vastly different contexts.
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Scientists in the news this week: June 5, 2020
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Scientists in the news this week: May 29, 2020
Your round-up of University of Adelaide scientists and science graduates in the news this week.
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
Palaeontologists have found fossils of a huge extinct animals that answer, but also pose new questions in the megafauna extinction debate.
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens more similar than previously thought
A cave on the Atlantic coast near Lisbon has provided researchers with key archaeological information that questions the behavioural gap once thought to separate Neanderthals from contemporaneous Homo sapiens.
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Why are fossils more often male?
University of Adelaide researchers have discovered that fossil and museum collections around the world are home to more male than female mammals.
New ‘king’ of fossils discovered on Kangaroo Island
Fossils of a giant new species from the long-extinct group of sea creatures called trilobites have been found on Kangaroo Island.
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