Knowing what an animal eats can help biologists find it – especially when a species is as elusive as this one.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Flinders University
It also explains why there are exceptions to the rule – including humans, who have strikingly short faces relative to the braincase.
The merits of the dingo fence are hotly debated, and there have been calls to pull it down. We need a better understanding of how the mega-structure affects species that live along it.
Conservation programs can give baby animals the best chance of surviving in the wild by feeding them tough foods, which studies of rats suggest makes their skull bones thicker and tougher.
A new analysis of an extinct giant kangaroo skull suggests it was adapted to eat tough, woody material - a feeding style not found in any modern marsupials.
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