Australian researchers investigating the extinction of the country's Tasmanian Tiger put the fault solely with humans Thursday, saying they had debunked a long-held theory that disease was to blame.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2013
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How long do you think stories can be passed down, generation to generation?
Archaeology
Aug 14, 2023
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41 000 years ago, the Earth's magnetic field faded and practically disappeared, leaving our planet unprotected from the bombardment of cosmic rays. Evidence for this event has been found in ocean sediment cores by a team ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2012
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Specially-adapted drones developed by a UCL-led international team have been gathering data from never-before-explored volcanoes that will enable local communities to better forecast future eruptions.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2020
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Following a series of recent surveys in north-western Liberia and south-eastern Guinea, an international team of researchers found three stiletto snakes which were later identified as a species previously unknown to science.
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2019
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The western long-beaked echidna, one of the world's five egg-laying species of mammal, became extinct in Australia thousands of years ago…or did it? Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have found evidence suggesting that ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 2, 2013
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Coral species richness at different depths is unrelated to energy availability, according to a new study analysing diversity across an Australasian reef.
Ecology
Oct 29, 2019
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A team of Australian scientists has completed research that could help solve a 200-year-old mystery surrounding an iconic Australian bird.
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2019
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A Deakin University marine scientist is asking coastal Victorian and Tasmanian locals and summer holidaymakers to help save one of the ocean's biggest yet most elusive endangered creatures.
Ecology
Dec 18, 2014
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Four new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to walk are causing a stir in waters off northern Australia and New Guinea.
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2020
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