Curtin University researcher Kit Prendergast has named the new bee species Leioproctus zephyr, after her pet dog Zephyr after noticing a protruding part...
The Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach (Panesthia lata), a species of large wingless cockroach that disappeared from its home island following the...
Paleontologists from Curtin University and elsewhere have studied a three-dimensionally mineralized heart (the oldest ever found), stomach, intestine and...
An analysis of advanced satellite images from the German Aerospace Centre has revealed an ancient landform with a circular rim and central dome ‘hidden’...
Three of the new orchid species are endemic to the rugged Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Calochilus kimberleyensis. Image credit: Barrett et al.,...
Paleontologists have used a micro-CT scanner and 3D printing to reconstruct a herbivorous hypsilophodont dinosaur that lived in Australia during the Early...
New research led by Curtin University geologists suggests that regions of space with dense interstellar clouds may send more high-energy comets crashing...
Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is unclear.
An artist’s concept of meteors impacting the ancient...
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus), which have been reported up to 18 m long, is the largest known extant fish species. This creatrure is a filter feeder...
Burn marks discovered on the 50,000-year-old eggshell fragments several years ago suggested the first Australians cooked and ate large eggs from extinct...
Scientists from West Virginia University have found ancient cells of prokaryotes and eukaryotes within fluid inclusions in halite crystals from the Neoproterozoic...
The newly-identified species of screw palm, named Pandanus estellae, is significant because it provides credible pre-Pleistocene evidence of the genus...
Despite several important studies, Indigenous fisheries generally receive less attention from scholars and managers than the 17th-20th century capitalist...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of a desert dingo (Canis dingo) from a remote region of South Australia and compared it with those of five breeds...
Fiona Backhouse and her colleagues from Western Sydney University, the University of Wollongong and the Australian National University have investigated...
A stalagmite from Yonderup Cave, a shallow cave in Western Australia, preserved a record of fire events and climate conditions.
Speleothems in Yonderup...
Prasophyllum morganii was first collected from a single population in Victoria, Australia, in 1929, but has not been collected since 1933.
Prasophyllum...
Scientists from Monash University and elsewhere have sequenced and assembled the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of the helmeted honeyeater (Lichenostomus...
New research led by Australian Museum paleontologists shows that monotremes are the last survivors of a diverse set of fossil species that once roamed...
