A study of purple-crowned fairy-wrens offers lessons for fire management along waterways in tropical savanna ecosystems.
A long-term global assessment of reptiles has revealed 21% are threatened, but an upside is that others have benefited from the conservation efforts put into other animals such as birds and mammals.
A five-million-year-old fossil that sat in a Melbourne museum for more than a century has rewritten the history of turtles in prehistoric Australia’s tropical climate.
There are too many little-understood species for scientists to study them all. A new approach helps decide which to tackle first.
Biotherapeutics in snake venom hold the answer to new medical treatments, and cheaper, more effective snake-bite remedies.
Two seal fossil discoveries are rewriting our understanding of what ancient seal species were like, and where they evolved.
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act is failing to adequately conserve and protect threatened species, and its scope needs widening.
Conservation sites are being compromised by commercial and population growth, putting pressure on ecosystems and threatened species.
We need a shift in our perception of sharks if they're to survive and thrive.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens to take us back to a pre-penicillin era.
As tough as gobies may be, the delicate environment in which they live is under threat from human activities.
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