Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps ...
A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australian Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...
Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only ...
To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...
An image of the field site, Mount Etna, Rockhampton, central-eastern Queensland. Caves can be found on the western flank of Mount Etna. Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when ...
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A trail camera in a national park of New South Wales photographed a critically endangered animal long thought to be locally extinct. Photo from Mark Lees / DPIE via New South Wales National Parks and ...
Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...