New fossils reveal Australia was once home to a much greater diversity of huge eagles and vultures, which died off alongside ‘giant wombats’ and ‘marsupial lions’.
- Adjunct Associate Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
La biologie évolutive et les archives fossiles révèlent beaucoup de choses sur les origines des poules et des œufs.
Evolutionary biology and the fossil record reveal a great deal about the origins of chickens and eggs.
At twice the size of a wedge-tailed eagle, the newly discovered Dynatoaetus gaffae would have competed with thylacines and Tasmanian devils for prey.
The identification of a vulture that lived more than 50,000 years ago is shedding more light on biodiversity loss and ecosystem change in Australia.
Archaehierax sylvestris, whose remains have been unearthed in the arid South Australian outback, was the apex predator in a lush prehistoric forest filled with marsupials and waterfowl.
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