Oct 8, 2024 by News Staff

A team of researchers at CSIRO has decoded the genome of the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a critically endangered species of marine fish...

May 23, 2024 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Tasmania and Western University have experimentally demonstrated that kangaroos, wallabies and other Australian marsupials...

Mar 10, 2022 by News Staff

The reality of bringing back the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the Tasmanian tiger or the marsupial wolf, from extinction using its...

Jan 12, 2022 by News Staff

Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) — one of the few mammalian species to have developed physiological and behavioral specializations for scavenging...

Sep 28, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Tasmania have unearthed the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of the trilobite genus Gravicalymene and named it after...

Aug 24, 2020 by News Staff

Until its extinction, the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest living carnivorous marsupial, but little data exist regarding its body mass,...

Apr 3, 2018 by News Staff

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is an egg-laying mammal which, alongside the echidna, occupies a unique place in the mammalian family tree. The...

Feb 27, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by Museums Victoria and the University of Melbourne has scanned all known joey specimens of the Tasmanian tiger...

Feb 26, 2018 by News Staff

Scientists have produced the first high-quality genomic sequence for the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the thylacine. Tasmanian...

Feb 16, 2018 by News Staff

The overall population numbers of wild Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are continuing to decline, due to the presence of a transmissible cancer,...

Nov 14, 2017 by News Staff

Tasmanian scientists have found living stromatolites (oldest known life form) in the Giblin River catchment of the UNESCO-listed Tasmanian Wilderness World...

Sep 29, 2017 by News Staff

A new study led by University of Adelaide researcher Jeremy Austin traces the history of Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) populations over the last 30,000 years. A...

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 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...

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...

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

The critically endangered swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) could become extinct within less than two decades, says a new study published online in the...

Sep 7, 2014 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, two species of sea-dwelling, mushroom-shaped organisms discovered off Australia...

Aug 4, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Joanne Whittaker of the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Australia’s...

Mar 10, 2014 by News Staff

European and Australian researchers have identified three new ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, dubbed CFC-112, CFC-112a, CFC-113a, and one new ozone-depleting...

Nov 18, 2013 by News Staff

Australian botanists have described a new species of high-altitude species of sedge from south-western Tasmania. Lepidosperma monticola at Mt. Field National...