There’s been a long-standing debate over whether dingoes started out wild or domesticated. One thing is clear – they had a close relationship with First Peoples.
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After combing through museum collections, our team of researchers found a whopping 125 fluorescent mammal species – from polar bears and dolphins, to leopards, zebras and wombats.
New research shows kangaroos may form long-term friendships.
Despite their solitary lifestyle, wombats are at risk from a disease that spreads via their burrows.
Brain samples of a thylacine that died in 1880 in Berlin were kept safe by researchers for decades. Now, they have finally been analysed.
Researchers have found an armoured fossil skink 1,000 times heavier than the ones in your garden. Its closest living relative is the shingleback lizard.
The ancestors of kangaroos once lived in the trees – but their evolutionary history is murky. Here’s everything we know so far.
Nimbadon lived 15 million years ago, in forests with flesh-eating kangaroos and tree-climbing crocodiles. Our first look inside their fossilised bones has revealed how these giants grew.
Many gardeners worry these large larvae might damage plants. But before you squish them, read this.
Less than a century ago, a slither of tiger snakes was abandoned on one of Western Australia’s tiny islets. Here’s how they adapted to survive.
These fascinating spiders only live for about a year and have particularly interesting family arrangements.
When a big old tree dies or is cut down, even if we plant a new one we might have to wait hundreds of years before it provides a good possum house.
Once thought to occur only in birds and mammals in the Northern Hemisphere, due to the more pronounced winters, we now know torpor is widespread in small Australian mammals.
Top contributors
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Curator of Mammals, Western Australian Museum; Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Anatomy, Murdoch University
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Professor Emeritus, Palaeontology, UNSW
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Project Coordinator (Biodiversity), Western Australian Museum
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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PhD candidate, Curtin University
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UNSW
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Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) and Gujaga Foundation, UNSW
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ARC Industry Fellow, Adelaide University
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Laureate Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Animal Anatomy and Physiology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate in Palaeontology, Curtin University
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Lecturer, Flinders University