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Trying to explain biodiversity with beetles
The recipe for seed beetle diversity is a mixture of co-evolution and adaptation, with time stirred in.
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DNA tools to curb the illegal pet trade
Our ability to detect the illegal trade in a threatened Australian snake species has just increased.
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Predator outwitted – nest cages take eggs off the menu
Experiments reveal that endangered White-fronted Chats will accept nest-cages, giving Sydney's population a last hurrah.
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Miner stocks continue to rise, closing out small consumers
A large-scale research collaboration has discovered why the native Noisy Miner now dominates bird communities in eastern Australia.
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Exploring the diversity of Christmas tree worms in Indo-Pacific coral reefs
Genetics comes to the rescue in solving a mystery surrounding psychedelically coloured marine worms!
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Archaeological science celebrates 40 years
The toolbox for archaeology now contains a diverse collection of highly sophisticated scientific techniques.
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Discovering Australian bristle worms
Old and new species discovered during the first ever survey of a mysterious family of bristle worms in Australian waters
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A coral-reef fish with large, fast, conspicuous larvae and small, cryptic adults
In most coral reef fishes, larvae are tiny and transparent, and adults large and boldly coloured – but in one species, the opposite is true.
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The phantom snail
Perched on a hill of a Kimberley island lives Taiwanassiminea phantasma a newly described and rare species of land snail.
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Saving inbred plant and animal populations from extinction
Genetic rescue of small inbred populations by outcrossing
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Teaching entomology in Papua New Guinea
Capacity building and the neighbours: teaching insect identification in Papua New Guinea.
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Rare and poorly-known, meet a new genus of long-legged flies
Flies from Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia show ancient Gondwanan connections.
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A new, fire-eyed, frog discovered in the forests of Vietnam
A small frog with bright orange eyes has just been discovered from the forested mountains of Vietnam
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Say hello to the Eastern Tadpole Coffinfish
A pudgy little coffinfish that lives over a kilometre below the surface has just been named.
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Do we influence how young fish find home?
Human impacts on the ocean may go even further than you know, disrupting the ability of fish larvae to find their way to a safe habitat…
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