23 Mar 2017

Biologists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found the first evidence of mass extinction of Australian animals caused by a dramatic drop in...

27 Feb 2017

Another exciting day at RSB! On 14th February 2017, around 200 RSB members came together for a day filled with networking opportunities as well as talks and...

23 Feb 2017

Form follows function, we are taught, but does it really? This is the question examined in a collaboration between Cathy Franzi, from the ANU School of Art and...

21 Feb 2017

The Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Biology has awarded the inaugural Ralph Slatyer Medal for outstanding biological research to...

20 Feb 2017

Jennie Mallela recently co-taught the ANU coral reef field course, with colleagues from the Research School of Earth Sciences, up in the southern Great Barrier...

30 Jan 2017

Crabs that invade smaller crab species’ habitat overpower and evict incumbents from their burrows, but the two species ultimately co-exist and join...

30 Jan 2017

January is not normally thought of as a teaching-heavy month, but RSB members were involved in a number of outreach events early this year.

16 Jan 2017

2016 Functional Ecology undergraduate field trip, made by RSB's own Pip Beale.

20 Dec 2016

Our friend and colleague Sylvain Foret died in his sleep on 17 December, while on a trip in Spain. His wife, Toop, was travelling with him.  Their two young...

15 Dec 2016

Susanne von Caemmerer was awarded the Peter Baume Award at the December 2016 ANU graduation and prizegiving ceremony

1 Dec 2016

The female Superb Fairy-Wren has the ability to change the size of the eggs it lays, a biological feat which could buffer against the effects of...

1 Dec 2016

Nearly 100 RSB graduate students gave talks about their research, and more presented their work as posters, at the 2016 annual RSB HDR Conference this month....