Science & Environment Teaching reptiles to avoid cane toads earns top honour in PM’s science prizes …native animals a better chance of avoiding being caught on the hop. Professor Shine’s research has also explored ways to stop cane toads reproducing, by lacing traps with pheromones from…
News More funding needed for thylacine genome …genomes. “We picked the thylacine as a worst-case scenario, a futile effort,” Stephan says. “It doesn’t have a close relative.” This research could provide insight into the evolutionary biology of…
Wildlife Bird melodies create the sweetest songs: you need to hear this Native Western Australian birds are the composers and stars of an engaging new music project at Edith Cowan University. Western Australian Performing Arts (WAAPA) PhD candidate Jean-Michel Maujean’s research is focused…
News Humans killed most of Australia's megafauna: study …New evidence To address this mystery, a research team from Monash University in Victoria and the University of Colorado Boulder in the USA, drilled sediment cores off the coast of…
News Traffic noise killing off frogs …metres, she says. Kirsten’s research was also detailed in the journal Ecology and Society last year. Similarly, the southern brown tree frog (Litoria ewingii), also found in Melbourne, has to…
News Koala detection dogs sniff out bushfire survivors …Mrs Woosnam said. After searching more than 10km on that first day, the team found another adult male and nearby an adult female without a joey. This female appeared thin…
Science & Environment Feral animals are running amok on Australia’s islands – here’s how to stop them …comes in on these islands, our analysis can suggest which of these we should focus on. Chris Wilcox is a Senior Research Scientist at the CSIRO and Erin McCreless is…
Wildlife Rare photos of blacktip reef sharks 'beaching' …Reef, 270km north of Cairns. The Lizard Island Research Station is a world-leading coral reef research facility located on the island and operated by the Australian Museum. More of Christian’s…
AustroPalaeo Rock shelter provides earliest evidence of humans in the outback …known dates for Aboriginal settlement of the Flinders Ranges, then thought to stretch back no more than 15,000 years. “Towards the end of my research – having felt quite depressed…
Wildlife Sir Charles Kingsford Smith remembered …day: Aviation’s golden-boy disappears”). “The search for ‘Smithy’ was the greatest land-sea search of all-time at that point,” says historian Peter FitzSimons, who wrote a 2010 book on Kingsford Smith’s…