An international team of marine biologists has described two new species of the polychaete worm genus Melinnopsis from deep waters off the east coast of...
Until its extinction, the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest living carnivorous marsupial, but little data exist regarding its body mass,...
In a new study, an international team of scientists used 22 newly-sequenced genomes from 18 extant species of penguins to reconstruct the history of their...
New research suggests Indigenous people on the tiny island of Mabuyag in the western Torres Strait, Australia, practiced banana (Musa cultivars) cultivation...
An international team of marine biologists has for the first time genetically identified a larva of the bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini).
A larval...
An unusual bioactive disaccharide called trehalulose is a major component of stingless bee honeys from Malaysia, Australia and Brazil, according to a new...
According to a new study led by University of Cambridge researchers, the processes that drive atoms or molecules to aggregate as a crystal have the same...
A research team led by Charles Darwin University biologists has identified and raised two additional species within what is currently designated as the...
Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) are not only capable of learning new ways to catch prey, but they are also motivated to learn from...
Paleontologists have identified a giant wombat-like marsupial that lived 25 million years ago (Oligocene epoch) in what is now Australia. Named Mukupirna...
Paleontologists have analyzed 151- to 165-million-year-old dinosaur footprints from 11 sites in southern Queensland, most of which produced large (length...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of fern-like plant from a single fossilized specimen collected in the New England region of New...
The diet of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) is about 32% mid-water fish, 17% bottom-dwelling fish, 5% reef fish, and 15% batoid fish such...
Extreme environmental change was the most likely cause of extinction of megafauna in Sahul, the supercontinent formed by Australia and New Guinea during...
Paleontologists in Australia have found a fossilized vertebra from an elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur that walked the Earth 110 million years ago (Cretaceous...
Museums Victoria arachnologist Joseph Schubert has described seven new species of the peacock spider genus Maratus from Australia.
Maratus azureus. Image...
A team of Australian scientists and wildlife ecologists has captured koala drinking behavior in the wild for the first time.
Old female koala showing natural...
An analysis of rocks from the Honeyeater Basalt of the East Pilbara Craton, a stable block of crust in Western Australia, provides strong evidence that...
Ikaria wariootia, a wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago (Ediacaran period) in what is now Australia, is the earliest bilaterian,...
A team of scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), Australia, was able to test blood samples at four different...
