Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

This surprising list of popular “pets” could actually get you fined, confiscated, or even charged, depending on your zip code. Curiosity about exotic animals often sparks a desire to bring a bit of ...

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

MELBOURNE: Researchers reveal for the first time that Australian marsupials are contaminated with synthetic "forever chemicals," linked to significant health impacts in other animals and humans. The ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...