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Tasmanian Aboriginal people had many dialects

…history. The study opens up new possibilities for language research, especially in areas where source data are scarce. “It’s important to show what we can do with old sources and…

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Life on the floodplains

…expanse of rocks and dust, sparsely vegetated by stunted plants, to huge oases rippling with life. Sturt, Burke and other 19th-century European explorers who searched for Australia’s mythical inland sea,…

History & Culture

Meet the prehistoric sea scorpions that once terrorised Australia

…Paleozoic oceans, you may have been fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to find one of the most fearsome of these extinct arthropods: the sea scorpions, Eurypterida. Our new research, published in…

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Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry

…Graeme Clark, Research Associate in Ecology, UNSW Australia; Katherine Dafforn, Senior Research Associate in Marine Ecology, UNSW Australia, and Mariana Mayer-Pinto, Research Associate in marine ecology, UNSW Australia This article…

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‘Old man’ of the sea: rare, giant 400-year-old coral discovered

…centuries of exposure to other threats. We describe the discovery in research published today. Our team surveyed the hemispherical structure, which comprises small marine animals and calcium carbonate, and found…

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Am I not pretty enough? Let's give the good old yabby some love

…species of Australian crayfish found And yet, little is known how their diets influence their growth and alter their quality as a food source. Our recent research starts to fill…

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Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years

…so much work remains to be done. There is still a great deal to learn about Australia’s ancient megafauna. Michael Westaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre…

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Night parrot found in Martu country, WA

…country to search for the birds, which are one of the rarest in the world (current estimates put the population at 50-250). Experts from the University of Queensland have been…

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40 years on: ingenious Tassie-made igloos are found all around the world

…are helicoptered into a research site in Greenland. Image credit: supplied by Denise and David Holland Two of the igloos, purchased by New York University, are helicoptered into a research…

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How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle?

…Research Scientist at the CSIRO; Kathy Ann Townsend is a Lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and Qamar Schuyler is a Research Scientist at Oceans…

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Tasmanian Aboriginal people had many dialects

Life on the floodplains

Meet the prehistoric sea scorpions that once terrorised Australia

Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry

‘Old man’ of the sea: rare, giant 400-year-old coral discovered

Am I not pretty enough? Let's give the good old yabby some love

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years

Night parrot found in Martu country, WA

40 years on: ingenious Tassie-made igloos are found all around the world

How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle?