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News

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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Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

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Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023

How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?

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Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023

Dr Robert Lanfear of the ANU Research School of Biology and Dr Minh Bui, from the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics (CECC) are finalists for the 2023 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software.

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Thursday, 13 Jul 2023

A first-of-its-kind genetic study of the endangered Australian Pookila - formerly known as the New Holland Mouse - is contributing to saving the species from extinction.

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Friday, 07 Jul 2023

A major new study explains why you won’t find kangaroos, koalas and other Aussie marsupials in Indonesia, but you will find many groups of animals that originated in Asia, such as goannas, rodents and kookaburras in Australia.

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Events

Fatema Akhter
20 May 2026 | 2 - 3pm

My research contributes to broader insights into sexual selection, life-history evolution, and the potential impacts of environmental change on reproductive dynamics in natural populations.

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Diep Ganguly
14 May 2026 | 2 - 3pm

Plants employ a suite of gene regulatory mechanisms that enable them to occupy a diverse range of environments and respond to ongoing perturbations.

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Ettore Camerlenghi
30 Apr 2026 | 1 - 2pm

Multilevel societies—where social groups show intergroup tolerance and repeatedly associate and merge with specific other groups—are among the most complex forms of social systems in vertebrates.

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Dr Thomas Schmidt
2 Apr 2026 | 1 - 2pm

As genomic data have become increasingly cheap to generate, they have seen a range of new uses for understanding pest populations.

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Diego C
11 Mar 2026 | 4 - 5pm

Phenotypic plasticity is an important adaptation for organisms that live under fluctuating environmental conditions.

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Kate O'Hara
6 Mar 2026 | 1 - 2pm

In this presentation, I show that geographically widespread triploid parthenogenetic forms of the Australian gekkonid Heteronotia binoei are considerably diverse despite their clonal reproductive mode, with patterns of SNP variation consistent with two previously identified reciprocal hybrid origins and numerous backcrossing events.

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