New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.
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By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.
Australia has more than 60 species of native rodents found nowhere else in the world. New research used museum specimens to find out how they got here.
With tarantula-like orchids and giant bananas, New Guinea is officially the most floristically diverse island in the world.
The island of New Guinea is home to 6% of the world’s frogs, but if the deadly chytrid fungus invades it could cause a mass extinction.
There is plenty of debate over what route was taken by the first people to reach Australia. New research reveals a likely route through a now submerged chain of islands.
The Dani people were part of a thriving agricultural society long before Westerners ‘discovered’ them in the 1930s.
Tiny frogs that have spread across New Guinea’s isolated mountains could face an uncertain future if a warming climate pushes them higher up the peaks.
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
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Research Associate, Systematics, biogeography and conservation of amphibians, South Australian Museum
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Research Professor in Archaeogenetics, Department of Physical and Life Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of East Anglia
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Zoology and Ecology, University of New England
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Archaeological Science, Flinders University
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