Analysis of Riversleigh fossils has revealed fascinating new facts about a tiny possum's ancestors. Scientists have long known that the miniature feather-tailed possums in Australia and the island of New Guinea members of the marsupial family Acrobatidae were evolutionary cousins, but where they started their long evolutionary journey has been a bit of a mystery until now.
Giant underwater landslides in Antarctica, which could have caused tsunami waves that went across the southern hemisphere hundreds of thousands of years ago, could have been passed by past landslides.
Snowball Earth theory disputed by new research, claiming panet was not totally frozen oversometime 650 million years ago, during the Cryogenian period, and had slushy patches.