Nature & Wildlife Meet Australia’s sea snake queen …enough at the time to pursue this. One day someone said to me, “What about sea snakes? They are disappearing.” I did some research, realised they are fascinating and are…
Biodiversity The Dog Fence: what future for this iconic but contentious barrier? …an essential ecosystem service. Research during three decades by University of NSW biologist Professor Mike Letnic has highlighted the impact of dingo control on local ecologies. He’s focused on the…
Biodiversity Bringing Borneo back …anymore in Sabah,” explains Raymond Alfred, former senior manager of WWF-Malaysia’s Borneo Species Program, and now head of Conservation and Research at Borneo Conservation Trust (BCT). “Here, the expansion of…
History & Culture Join the hunt for Bäuerlen's long-lost legendary ferns …amateur botanist. As an independent researcher and writer with a science and museum-sector background, the two albums grabbed my attention. What exactly was I looking at? So began wide research…
Science & Environment Earthquake map may predict future disasters …techniques. “What has come out of our research is that linking global geo-physical data sets to earthquake hazard analysis is a really interesting future research area,” Thomas says. RELATED STORIES…
Nature & Wildlife Male bowerbirds stick to their own style …not their own. “The results raise questions about why males are consistent and apparently ‘honest’, and will prompt research on other species,” Rob says. “Such research should give new insights…
People Forensic investigations: Can a fly solve a murder case? …becomes a skeleton in about four weeks. In winter, it can take five months. In the tropics, just 15 days. Ian correlates his research with work undertaken at the so-called…
Nature & Wildlife Australia, do you know where your exotic pets come from? …Animal Protection more than a quarter of exotic pet owners did no research before buying a wild animal. The polling looked at 500 owners of exotic pets who owned wild…
Nature & Wildlife Native frog develops natural resistance to deadly chytrid fungus Our new research, however, has identified an endangered frog species that seems to have developed a natural resistance to the disease, after having previously succumbed to it in prior decades:…
