Nature & Wildlife Spotting leopard sharks once again …Leopard sharks are reared at Sorido Bay Resort’s Raja Ampat Research and Conservation Centre. Image credits: Sarah Reid The pups are fitted with acoustic tags before their release, which, along…
Biodiversity The puzzle of the platypus: Could time be up for this iconic Aussie animal? …last year University of Adelaide-led research began exploring a hormone in this complex chemical cocktail as a potential new diabetes treatment. Who’d have thought answers to two of the biggest…
DNA tests reveal orcas killed great white for only its liver …leads the Killer Whales Australia citizen science program and is a field research officer at the Dolphin Research Institute based in Victoria. Donnelly contributed to the Flinders University research by…
Biodiversity Moonstruck: How lunar light influences animal behaviour …gazed in wonderment and an orphan infant, standing tall, gestured upward as the Sun and Moon eclipsed far above the cold woodland surroundings of the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre….
Nature & Wildlife Zebra finches are social singers, new research finds …in their natural habitat in an Australian arid zone. Image credit: Simon Griffiths/Macquarie University The research, published in the Journal of Current Biology, used five years of field studies at…
Herpes virus threatens endangered turtles …statistics on mortality rates in diseased turtles. WWF is helping fund the research, which involves catching, testing and tagging the turtles in a kind of “turtle rodeo” manner. RELATED STORIES…
Biodiversity Mightier than the saw …is an Honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University, encountered her first sawfish in an aquarium. And it was an overheard conversation in another aquarium that sparked the idea for her…
Biodiversity Prestigious research award announced …long-running collaborative research project is led by La Trobe and Deakin universities, and has shown that the effects of a single fire could last well over a century. The research…
History & Culture Turning toxins to therapies: The wild world of researching venom …the world in terms of venom research,” says Professor Glenn King, a biochemist at the institute. “There are other places doing excellent work in antivenom research, and groups in Belgium…
Volunteer research with manta rays …Participate in manta ray research We passengers observe their activity using a mask and snorkel, mesmerised and breathless from attempting to keep up with their seemingly effortless but remarkably swift…
