News Urgent action needed to save the reef while we still can, scientists warn …Heritage-listed natural icon, including severe tropical cyclones. And in new research out today, scientists have concluded that this unprecedented bleaching – which effected 90 per cent of the reef –…
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 When possums go bump in the night …the roof cavity. Emma’s research heard residents speak about the “thump, thump, thump” of possums walking across the ceiling. Others described being jolted awake at dawn to crashing and scraping…
News Night parrot recordings released online for first time …they have heard night parrots in other places. The call recordings have proved invaluable for night parrot research. “Sound recordings are the most effective way of surveying the night parrot,”…
Fundraising Donate for Dugongs …land into the oceans, which may be affecting dugong health. Make a Difference The University of Queensland dugong research team, led by Dr Janet Lanyon, are the premier dugong research…
News Dinosaurs would still exist if the asteroid had landed almost anywhere else THE DECLINE OF the dinosaurs, the rise of mammals and, ultimately, the origins of humans were even more unlikely than previously thought, according to new research. The huge asteroid collision…
News Queensland Museum acquires rare meteorite …of Collections, Research and Learning at the Museum, told Australian Geographic. “Because of the rarity of this meteorite it provides opportunities for further research on this class of meteorites. Queensland…
Wildlife The controversial history of the marsupial lion …local Indigenous people. In 1842, the Wellington finds and local Aboriginal knowledge led the Queensland squatter Frederick Isaacs to search for fossil sites in his recently acquired Darling Downs sheep…
News Skin cancer threat to Great Barrier Reef fish …Newcastle University. Previous research has shown that whales suffer from sunburn. Researchers at the university and the Australian Institute of Marine Science examined 136 coral trout caught at Heron Island…
Wildlife Gould's petrels back from the brink …of the dodo,” says Nicholas, a senior research scientist with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), based in Sydney. Success on Montague Island In response, conservationists sprang into…