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Whale poo important for ocean ecosystems

IT’S LONG BEEN thought that a whale’s size and need for huge amounts of food is a burden on ocean ecosystems, but new Australian research shows that its output may…

Science & Environment

Crafty chickens use complex clucking

…portrays chickens as social creatures that employ Machiavellian intelligence and adjust what they say depending on who is listening. The research won the pair one of the awards at Tuesdays’s…

Science & Environment

Fearsome giant turtles found in Pacific cemetery

…settlers, says a new study. People shared the island with these giant land-dwelling turtles for at least two centuries, but eventually wiped them out, according to research published today by…

Nature & Wildlife

Is the truth still out there?

…to a year-long, but ultimately fruitless, search by PWS rangers in the region for any further hints of the presence of the marsupial carnivore. “This was someone who knew Tasmanian…

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Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: What teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds

…my own research has been labelled as “ecologically irrelevant”. However, as I have argued in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, there are plenty of reasons to study this kind of animal…

Nature & Wildlife

Sydney funnel-web spider found to be three different species

…of scientists has confirmed this. The research, published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, identified the three species by analysing specimens from the Australian Museum and the Australian Reptile Park. Who’s…

Nature & Wildlife

Newly discovered fledglings offer hope for the Norfolk Island morepork

…was an increasing possibility that most, if not all birds were now beyond breeding age,” says Dr Rohan Clark, the Head of the Ornithology and Conservation Management Research Group at…

Biodiversity

Changing the clocks could save Queensland's koalas

…researchers at the University of Queensland, every year over 300 koalas are killed from vehicle collisions in the state. The research shows that these collisions generally occur in the late…

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Platypus, echidna venom could help treat diabetes

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS have discovered that a hormone produced in both platypus and echidna venom could hold the key to treating type-2 diabetes. Research led by Professor Frank Grützner at the…

Nature & Wildlife

The weird world of slime mould

…single day. This, and evidence of navigational skills in an organism with no brain, has attracted countless research papers. In 2012 an international research group, which included Australian scientists, placed…

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Whale poo important for ocean ecosystems

Crafty chickens use complex clucking

Fearsome giant turtles found in Pacific cemetery

Is the truth still out there?

Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: What teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds

Sydney funnel-web spider found to be three different species

Newly discovered fledglings offer hope for the Norfolk Island morepork

Changing the clocks could save Queensland's koalas

Platypus, echidna venom could help treat diabetes

The weird world of slime mould