News: Palaeontology
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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Researchers link penguin evolution to island formation
DNA from prehistoric penguin bones analysed by University of Adelaide scientists, have contributed to new findings about the evolution of these aquatic flightless birds.
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Plant fossils show the Snowy Mountains were once a lush rainforest
Lilly Pilly fossils found in old gold mines of the Snowy Mountains, prove the region was once a lush rainforest without snow.
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Giant handaxes suggest that different groups of early humans coexisted in ancient Europe
Even our earliest human ancestors made and used technology - something we can look back on thanks to the lasting nature of stone tools.
