29 Jun 2021

Australia has the world’s worst track record for wiping out mammals, with 34 species declared extinct since European colonisation. But today, we bring some...

29 Jun 2021

An Australian mammal thought to have been wiped out over 150 years ago can now be crossed off our list of extinct animals, following a new study.

24 Jun 2021

A growing global push to halt biodiversity decline, most recently agreed at the G7 on Sunday, leaves Australia out in the cold as the federal government walks...

23 May 2019

David Duchêne uses phylogenomics to study the diversification of Australian marsupials.

10 Jul 2018

Within two days of Josh Penalba submitting his PhD, the Biology graduate started working in a lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

1 May 2018

Dan Rosauer is fascinated by the incredibly uneven spatial distribution of biological diversity at all levels, particularly centres of phylogenetic endemism.

16 Jan 2018

Angela McGaughran is primarily interested in combining genomic and ecological approaches to examine evolutionary processes in natural populations.

27 Oct 2017

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has mapped priority areas around the world to protect thousands of mammal species, with a focus on...

20 Sep 2016

The habitats of more than 90 per cent of Australia's gum tree species will on average halve in size, and 16 eucalypt species are likely to become extinct, over...

6 Sep 2016

Did you miss the inaugural RSB public forum? Click here to listen

29 Jul 2016

ANU and the CSIRO have opened a new collaborative research centre to focus on environment, agriculture and global food supplies.

21 Dec 2015

Group research focus We study the evolution of diversity of terrestrial vertebrates in relation to environmental history and with a focus on tropical Australia...