ABC NEWS launches Deep Time today, giving all Australians the opportunity to experience the awe-inspiring ancient story of our continent and its people.

Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role ...

Some 252 million years ago, the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming. To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic ...

Two Australian children sifting through rocks and dirt in Australia's outback have unearthed one of the world's most important fossil finds, Australian fossil experts said last week. The fossils show ...

The rivers of Australia, which once flowed across its now dry interior, used to host a range of bizarre animals - including a sleek predatory lobe-finned fish with large fangs and bony scales. The ...

Former prime minister Tony Abbott sits down with Sky News Political Contributor Chris Uhlmann at the launch event for the ...

More than 395,000 acres from four of Australia's national parks was returned to the Aboriginal Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a "historic" agreement, officials announced Wednesday. Among the land is ...

During the 18th century, England sought out remote locations to house prisoners as a solution to its overcrowded jails. In 1788, England's First Fleet arrived in the Eora nation—now known as Sydney, ...

The rivers of Australia, which once flowed across its now dry interior, used to host a range of bizarre animals -- including a sleek predatory lobe-finned fish with large fangs and bony scales. The ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen trapped ...