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140-year-old brain sample reveals Tassie tiger related to carnivorous marsupials, not wolves
…but not wolves Thylacines were dingo-sized carnivorous marsupials that roamed through Australia and New Guinea prior to human occupation. They became confined to Tasmania around 3,000 years ago. The arrival…
A hefty bone-crunching extinct relative to the Tassie devil discovered
PALEONTOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND evidence of a new bone-crunching, flesh-eating Aussie marsupial from the same family as the Tassie devil at a significant new fossil site in north-western Queensland. Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum…
Desert rainbowfish: how they survive in Australia’s scorching desert
…University; Chris Brauer, Postdoctoral Fellow Molecular Ecology Lab, Flinders University; Jonathan Sandoval Castillo, Postdoctoral Fellow Molecular Ecology, Flinders University; Louis Bernatchez, Professeur en biologie, Université Laval; Luciano Beheregaray, Professor of…
This scientist deliberately subjects himself to the world's most painful stingers
…tone. But there’s nothing nonchalant about the way Sam explores his interest. A molecular biologist at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience, he has earned himself quite a…