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News

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) /Peter Ginter
Monday, 15 Sep 2025

A new approach to analysing museum specimens has revealed a massive decline in Fiji’s native ant species since the arrival of humans to the islands

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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2024

Australia’s ski industry is at risk of major disruptions and shorter seasons if the current level of climate pollution continues, according to new modelling from Protect Our Winters Australia (POW) and The Australian National University (ANU).

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Friday, 31 May 2024

In new research published in Science, biologists show how coevolution drives the creation of new species of cuckoos.

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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.

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A bee
Tuesday, 27 Feb 2024

We have a small and vanishing window to collect bees before the inevitable rapid spread of the varroa mites, and the mass die-offs, occur.

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Friday, 23 Feb 2024

Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of collaborative new research published in the journal Molecular Ecology.

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Events

29 Apr 2021 | 10am

Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under: The speed of evolution

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22 Apr 2021 | 4 - 5pm

There is great variation in how individuals interact with each other. Variation in sociality has been argued to reflect adaptations to the environment, but the exact links between local conditions and social behaviors are often unclear.

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1 Apr 2021 | 9 - 10am
18 Mar 2021 | 10am

Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under

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4 Mar 2021 | 9am

I’ll share some of the latest data on animal movement around the planet. I will highlight how this helps us to preserve biodiversity, to secure our global food supplies, to anticipate pandemics and potentially to predict natural disasters.

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19 Feb 2021 | 4 - 5pm

The study of animal ‘personality’, or consistent individual differences in behaviour, has received much attention in the last two decades, but several important questions remain unclear.

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