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Western pygmy possum research gets a boost

…western pygmy possum. A new research project is looking into the secret lives of this tiny species, which are just under 8cm long, and its cousin, the honey possum. “We…

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Dingo research wins top science prize

…Australian ecosystems has been awarded this year’s Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. Through this research, a team of Australian professors demonstrated the environmental significance of the dingo, a species at…

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Minke research expedition underway

AN AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY-funded whale research expedition begins today, with researchers venturing to the Great Barrier Reef to better understand the little-studied Minke whale species. Ahead of next week’s annual…

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Queensland family contributes $18.5m to conservation research

…endangered native wildlife, practical courses for science students and provide an ideal field base for wildlife ecology researchers. The Turner family’s donation will fund the building, operation and ongoing research…

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Bubble findings aid cell research

…enabled the team to study the collisions at various speeds. Technology measures tiny force The outcome of the research was a new way to measure what happens when bubbles bounce…

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Drones offer new approach to whale research

…universities have been using the drones to capture videos and images of adult humpbacks and calves off the WA coast. Their research is being presented at the Australasian Wildlife Management…

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Whale research mission returns from Antarctica

…the New Zealand Research Vessel Tangaroa, studying humpback, blue and Antarctic minke whales in their Southern Ocean habitat, the team – including scientists from Australia, New Zealand, and France –…

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Aussie bat research 100 years behind

GIVEN THEIR HIGH PUBLIC profile, we tend to assume that most mammal species were recognised and named long ago. Unfortunately, this simply isn’t so, and my recent taxonomic research on…

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Researchers to search for ancient ‘extinct’ echidna

A TEAM OF Australian researchers is planning to search for the long-beaked echidna in rugged pockets of the Kimberley in Western Australia. The expedition, led by ecologist Professor David Watson…

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Glossy black-cockatoo spotted in Northern Rivers after months of searching

…(dubbed ‘Barry’ and ‘The Baroness’ were the first glossy black-cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus lathami) sighted after months of searching in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Photo credit: Locky Cooper/Pixofnature.com It…

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