Creating a biosecurity crisis is shockingly simple. In the 1850s, Jane Paterson, a settler near Albury planted seeds of a European plant with an attractive purple flower in her garden. She had no way of knowing that plant ...
Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around the world. Their study, published in Nature Food, reveals a strong positive relationship between dung presence and grazing ...
On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest—a place where the density of trees forms an almost impenetrable mass of green.
Is there a connection between bird flu and microRNA, the tiny bits of RNA which have different tasks in regulating genes and producing the body's building blocks?
An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web has long been considered ...
A study by The University of Western Australia found that maintaining some predation pressure in havens gave native fauna improved chances of survival when they were released into the wild.
Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand.
The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain plants left some species susceptible ...
Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final extinction of the megafauna, a new ...
Falcons are found worldwide, from the fast and slick hobbies to the large and powerful gyrfalcon of the Arctic tundra. In Africa, falcons are found across many habitats. Several species are unique to the continent, including ...
