Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of biologists led by Dr Benjamin D. Charlton from the University of Sussex has discovered that koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) possess...

Nov 22, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have discovered a previously undescribed species of giant clam on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. Tridacna maxima, a close relative...

Nov 12, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Nora Noffke from Old Dominion University in Norfolk and her colleagues have unearthed evidence of complex microbial ecosystems in 3.48 billion year...

Nov 5, 2013 by News Staff

An Australian-U.S. team of paleontologists has found a unique fossil of a huge, carnivorous platypus that lived in what is now Australia during the late...

Oct 30, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of humpback dolphin in the waters off northern Australia. A newly identified...

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Palaeontology, two footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in southern Victoria are the oldest avian tracks...

Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

Australian researchers reporting in the journal Nature Communications have detected particles of gold in the branches and leaves of eucalyptus trees growing...

Oct 20, 2013 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, Denisovans – relatives to both Neanderthals and humans – somehow managed to cross Wallace’s...

Oct 9, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Ines Melendez from Curtin University have identified 70 intact steroidal compounds in a 380-million-year-old crustacean fossil from the...

Oct 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius. The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...

Sep 25, 2013 by News Staff

A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short). Aboriginal...

Jul 25, 2013 by News Staff

Two tiny marsupial fossils from Australia are prompting an overhaul of theory about marsupial evolution after they revealed unexpected links to South America...

Jun 19, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, has discovered 280 new craters on the Moon. Spatial distribution of the 66...

Jun 18, 2013 by News Staff

A multinational team of biologists writing in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has identified a new species of fungus that causes life-threatening infections...

Jun 18, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...

Jun 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Chemical analysis of fossil tooth enamel from extinct marsupials that lived in what is now southeastern Queensland 5 to 2.5 million years ago has revealed...

Jun 10, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Australian biologists have found that male superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) coordinate song with dance as part of an elaborate mating ritual. Superb...

Jun 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from the United States and Japan have discovered unusual spindle-shaped organic microfossils in 3 billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara Craton...

Jun 6, 2013 by News Staff

According to research led by Dr Magali Pujol from the University of Lorraine in France, bubbles of water found in Archaean hydrothermal quartz in Australia...

Jun 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Prof Patrice Rey from the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney has described for the first time the dramatic geological events that created...