Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Cerapodans were small, plant-eating dinosaurs that scampered around on two legs. Come the Cretaceous, the fossil record tells ...

In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the last living representative of its family.

Flinders University researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the last living representative of its family ...

A musky rat-kangaroo in the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland. Photo by Amy TschirnTo understand why kangaroos hop - a rarity ...

From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world ...

The evolutionary history of kangaroos, which are the only hopping animals with body masses greater than 5kg, cannot be understood without considering ...

A West Virginia hunter's frustration with an unpredictable turkey ultimately turns into a grudging respect for that bird.

Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...