In the animal kingdom, survival essentially boils down to eat or be eaten. How organisms accomplish the former and avoid the latter reveals an immense array of defense mechanisms. Maybe you can outrun your prey. Perhaps you ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Sydney researchers have identified two new parasite species causing disease among endangered Australian frogs. They say they are most likely native, overturning a commonly held view they were ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2011
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Travelling around the top end of Australia, would you be able to tell the difference between a poisonous cane toad and a bumpy rocket frog or a giant frog? - They look similar but sound quite different. A new mobile app ...
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2013
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An endemic mammal has been re-discovered in the eastern Kimberley, almost a century after its last recorded sighting.
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2012
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Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived when the dinosaurs didn't, but a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of them extinct, according to an article in the November issue ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 23, 2009
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Australian scientists are hoping to add some truth to the old adage by using curiosity to kill some of the country's millions of wild cats.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2010
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Look at this photo of two coral skeletons below. You'd be forgiven for thinking they're the same species, or at least closely related, but looks can be deceiving. These two species diverged tens of millions of years ago, ...
Ecology
Sep 15, 2020
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Discoveries of albino animals have a unique ability to capture the public imagination, often leading to flurries of social media and news coverage. (Think Migaloo, the famous white humpback whale.)
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2023
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The aggressive and invasive Asian honey bee could become as bad a pest in Australia as the cane toad, a senator warned Wednesday, adding that the insect could threaten the country's food supply.
Ecology
Mar 2, 2011
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For three-quarters of a century, the cane toad has rampaged around northeastern Australia, but scientists hope the toxic terror may at last be stopped in its tracks.
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2011
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