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Night parrot found in Martu country, WA

Here’s how it unfolded.

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Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago

Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming to an end.

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The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a ‘large predator’ – but it was only half as heavy as we thought

Here’s what we got wrong about the thylacine.

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It’s official: Australia is home to a fly named after Deadpool

Over the past year, CSIRO has given scientific names to 165 new species.

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Highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau best place to view stars

A chilly, but superb place to observe stars.

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‘Switch off that porch light’: study reveals light pollution in cities has urban birds tossing and turning

New research suggests urban light is disrupting bird sleep regardless of what colour it is.

Adventure

Western Faces: The film that reveals Australia’s epic backcountry skiing

Australian mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape, free-skier Anna Segal and Freeride World Tour rookie Michaela Davis-Meehan, are set to explore some of the steepest faces in their backyard inthe film, Western Faces. With New Zealand free-skiers Fraser McDougall and Hank Bilous along for the ride, they’re slogging deep into the Snowy Mountains backcountry to find free-ride terrain that will have their Kiwi counterparts doing a double-take.