Mar 29, 2017 by Natali Anderson

A group of paleontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University has documented the most diverse assemblage of dinosaur tracks in...

Mar 13, 2017 by News Staff

A study led by University of Tasmania researchers Cesar Tovar and Gregory Woods has shown that immunotherapy can cure Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)...

Jan 23, 2017 by News Staff

New evidence indicates the primary cause of megafaunal extinction in Australia 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate change. A paper...

Jan 19, 2017 by News Staff

A duo of researchers from the United States and Australia has used an imaging technique to reconstruct the brain architecture and neural networks of the...

Jan 16, 2017 by Natali Anderson

A team of marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Western Australia Museum has captured on video the first-ever field sighting...

Jan 2, 2017 by News Staff

Australian manuka honey is at least as powerful against bacteria as the more commonly known New Zealand variety, according to a new study published in...

Dec 19, 2016 by News Staff

A novel technique developed by a team of researchers in Australia has made it possible to produce some of the first reliable radiocarbon dates for Australian...

Oct 24, 2016 by News Staff

A new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous has been discovered in western Queensland, Australia. Savannasaurus elliottorum. Image...

Sep 22, 2016 by News Staff

The first comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians has revealed that they are indeed the direct descendants of Australia’s earliest settlers...

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...

Aug 23, 2016 by News Staff

A new species of marsupial lion that lived approximately 18 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in Australia. Reconstruction of Microleo...

Aug 18, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has proposed that an extinct animal called the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) hunted in a very unique way...

Jul 25, 2016 by News Staff

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, trauma surgeons and crash investigation experts have collaborated to produce ‘Graham,’ an educational tool for...

May 30, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Sharks of the same species can have different personalities, indicates a new study published in the Journal of Fish Biology. Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus...

May 27, 2016 by News Staff

Fossil remains of a previously unknown group of snail-eating marsupials that lived in Australia between 10 and 15 million years ago have been discovered...

May 17, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from South Korea and Australia has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred approximately 3.5 billion...

May 11, 2016 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia has unearthed a small...

Mar 16, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Stephan Getzin of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Germany, has announced the exciting...

Jan 13, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists led by University of Melbourne researcher Dr Matthew Le Feuvre has described twenty new species of freshwater fish from the rivers...

Dec 22, 2015 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists from the University of British Columbia were lucky to witness a New Holland seahorse (Hippocampus whitei) giving birth in the waters...