China on Saturday launched its 42nd Antarctic expedition to conduct deep drilling experiments aimed at studying the continents evolution and natural resources, marking the first time its team will ...

Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

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Stretching from the Americas in the east to Asia and Australia in the west, and dotted with island chains from Hawaii to ...

Extreme heat forged Earth’s continents billions of years ago, creating the stable foundation that made life possible.

Two mutineers, a near-miss name, and a continent born from chaos. Australia’s name came down to more than just geography.

Australian boomerangs come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The classic symmetrical boomerang is designed to return in a ...

A new paper shows Western Australia’s Hamersley iron ore giants are roughly one billion years younger than long assumed. The ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower ...

First Nations people have survived and thrived through an ice age and massive landscape changes — as well as sharing the land ...