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Fossil fish sport world's oldest six packs

A team of palaeontologists, including three from ANU, have uncovered the oldest fossilised vertebrate muscles ever discovered.

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Dating a Neanderthal

There are many possible explanations but Dr Rachel Wood from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences is gathering evidence that suggests the answer may simply be that we have the dates wrong.

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Earth's centre is out of sync

New research from RSES, ANU has revealed that the centre of the Earth is out of sync with the rest of the planet.

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ANU digs deep for national rock garden

ANU has partnered with the Geological Society of Australia to establish the National Rock Garden (NRG) in Canberra, which will showcase 100 iconic rock specimens ranging in age from 4,000 million years to a few thousand years old.

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World’s Oldest Rock Art In Aus?

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown that a large collection of Indigenous rock engravings in Western Australia could be the oldest in the world.

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10-Fold increase in Antarctic Peninsula summer ice-melt

Summer ice melting in the Antarctic Peninsula has intensified almost ten-fold in the last 600 years, with the most rapid melting occurring in the last 50, according to research from ANU and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

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Welcome to the Research School of Earth Sciences

Planet Earth is an amazing place - it is constantly moving and its surface is always changing. At the centre of the Earth, temperatures are as high as they are on the surface of the Sun. Over billions of years, this has caused continents to drift apart and oceans to open and close. The study of Earth and marine sciences is fundamental to our understanding of the precious balance of life on Earth and how the Solar System in which we live was formed.

Our focus is on both earth processes and environmental science. The Research School of Earth Sciences has many world leading researchers in the Earth Sciences and offers undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as Higher Degree Research opportunities.