The newly described fossil goose Meterchen luti lived alongside crocodilians and turtles on the shores of the ancient Lake Manuherikia.
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The fossil record suggests Australia may be much wetter, and look far different, in centuries and millenia to come.
Spoiler: lots more floods.
‘Marsupial lions’ aren’t really lions - but they did have teeth that formed a pair of secateur-like blades. The newly found species lived in forests of Queensland around 20 million years ago.
A new study can’t rule out the possibility that human ancestors lived on Crete at the same time as they evolved in Africa.
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