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Snake cannibalism caught on camera
In an example of nature at its absolute wildest, a python has been recorded eating a fellow python alive.
Category: Wildlife
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Did Australia’s First Nations people domesticate dingoes?
Dingoes are an iconic Australian wild animal, with close links to Australia’s First Nations people throughout the mainland. Yet the origins and history of these animals are shrouded in obscurity.
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Funnier than the original: Laughing frog found to be two separate species
Citizen scientists across Australia have helped uncover a frog species new to science, which has a longer ‘laugh’ than the original tree frog species.
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New Great Barrier Reef fish species discovered living ‘in plain sight’
Researchers are celebrating after a University of the Sunshine Coast-led project detected the previously unknown species named Lady Elliot Shrimp Goby on a tiny coral cay.
Science & Environment
Conservation meets machine learning
Artificial intelligence is opening an exciting world of possibilities for saving species.
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Do kangaroos form mothers groups?
The social lives of kangaroos are more complex than we thought.
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Warning of dire threat to koalas from urban sprawl
Koalas are under increasing pressure as southeast Queensland grapples with a housing crisis and predicted population explosion of 2.2 million people.
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Once-extinct ‘zombie fish’ are back for a wild time
A so-called “zombie fish” thought to have been extinct for two decades has been released into a Victorian wetland after it was brought back from the dead.
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True damage of feral species revealed in landmark report. What can we do to stop the decimation?
Invasive alien species are driving biodiversity loss and extinctions in every country, all over the world. Responding to the challenge, the United Nations is today releasing the first global assessment of invasive alien species and their control.
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Training AI to listen to Aussie wildlife is a bellow and a hoot
Australian researchers are using AI to identify the things that go bump, bellow and hoot in the night. Can you?