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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

An illustration showing a robot pointing at icons of different fish species, with a world map depicting geographical data on the left side, symbolizing species classification.
22 Jan 2024 | 1pm

Oceans are environments where a diversity of human activities threaten marine life. To achieve effective conservation, it is crucial to comprehend the movement patterns of animals within these dynamic environments: how, when, where, and why they move.

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Illustration showing a complex diagram of intersecting dashed lines in multiple colors, alongside icons of a rock climbing hold, a menstrual pad, a jellyfish, and a goose with question marks.
15 Dec 2023 | 4pm

Phylogenetics is the science of reconstructing the evolutionary history of groups of species or individuals. Most phylogenetic methods include the treelikeness assumption, which states that every site in an alignment shares an identical evolutionary history.

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Illustration of a map of Australia overlaid with various stylized snakes, accompanied by the text "SPAGS & SNAGS The evolution of Australian blindsnakes."
1 Dec 2023 | 4pm

I will tell you about Australia's most diverse snake genus, their relationships with one another, how they got to where they are, and what their morphological and ecological variation can tell us about their evolutionary history and their future.

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27 Nov 2023 | 5pm

A fundamental challenge in animal ecology research lies in the ability to understand the factors that shape the evolution and plasticity of behaviours, life histories, and population dynamics of organisms.

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27 Nov 2023 | 4pm

The Cotton Bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, is a globally distributed polyphagous pest with a profound economic and environmental impact.

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A man wearing a cap and backpack smiling while sitting on a boat with the sea and coastline in the background.
16 Nov 2023 | 1pm

Common wall lizards are one of the most widespread and frequently encountered reptiles in Europe. They span the entire continent from Spain through to Turkey and have even managed to find themselves introduced into areas outside their native range (e.g., the UK).

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