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...
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...
A new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous has been discovered in western Queensland, Australia.
Savannasaurus elliottorum. Image...
The first comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians has revealed that they are indeed the direct descendants of Australia’s earliest settlers...
An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...
A new species of marsupial lion that lived approximately 18 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in Australia.
Reconstruction of Microleo...
An international team of paleontologists has proposed that an extinct animal called the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) hunted in a very unique way...
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, trauma surgeons and crash investigation experts have collaborated to produce ‘Graham,’ an educational tool for...
Sharks of the same species can have different personalities, indicates a new study published in the Journal of Fish Biology.
Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus...
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...
An international team of scientists from South Korea and Australia has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred approximately 3.5 billion...
A team of archaeologists from the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia has unearthed a small...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Stephan Getzin of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Germany, has announced the exciting...
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...
Marine biologists from the University of British Columbia were lucky to witness a New Holland seahorse (Hippocampus whitei) giving birth in the waters...
A team of scientists from James Cook University and Curtin University, both in Australia, has rediscovered two Australian endemic sea snake species, leaf-scaled...
A team of entomologists has captured Australian blue-banded bees’ unique approach to pollination – headbanging flowers up to 350 times a second.
The...
Australian little penguins are a separate species from those living in New Zealand, a team of ornithologists led by University of Otago scientist Dr Stefanie...
A new species of armored dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered more than two decades ago in Australia.
An artist impression of Kunbarrasaurus...
An international team of biologists from Australia and the United States has discovered two new species of methane-metabolizing archaea.
Archaea were first...
