Study of ancient Australian fossils receives funding from NASA.

A joint Australian-US team has a plan to use AI to understand the oldest complex fossils on Earth – and they’ve just ...

When did the first animal evolve? And would we know it when we saw it?

All other photos in this story by Ian Connellan. On a hillside just west of the Flinders Ranges, geologist Mary Dr...

Indigenous and local people are now excluded from many areas that require care.

By Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lisa Palmer, Rebecca Hamilton, and Wolfram Dressler. According to the Oxford English di...

Scientists have explained the mysterious disappearance of cold eclogites, and it could help us fi...

Geologists from the University of Adelaide think they know why cold eclogites vanished for 600 million years – and it...

Shaking out the facts on Australian quakes.

This morning, residents in south-eastern Australia felt the earth shake beneath them for about 20 seconds. The mag...

In 1920, Tannatt William Edgeworth David was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.  This gave b...

The new national park preserving Earth’s earliest life.

Drone footage courtesy of Associate Prof Diego C. García-Bellido (South Australian Museum/University of Adelaide). ...

Scan reveals huge seafloor channels carved by ancient ice sheets.

Scientists have created spectacular maps of drowned worlds beneath the North Sea, revealing enormous channels forged ...

Charting the fluctuations of the planet’s magnetic field using palaeomagnetism.

A study from the University of Liverpool has added to the growing corpus of evidence that Earth’s magnetic field is s...

Research throws light on the origins of oceanic and deep continental diamonds.

While most diamonds are formed beneath continents, at depths between 150 and 300 kilometres, a paper published in Sci...