Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

(Reuters) -Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 ...

Learn more about the lineages of Australian and South American tree frogs, which separated approximately 55 million years ago ...

For about 2% of the world’s amphibian species, it’s already getting too hot to survive in their natural habitats, according ...

A PhD student from the University of Melbourne was featured in Nature's 2025 Scientist At Work photography competition.

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...