We may be in the middle of an insect mass extinction. The once abundant Rocky Mountain locust was last seen in 1902. Under the Mikheyev Group, Peiyu Yuan used data from a related extant locust species and comparative genomics to identify artifacts in museum data of the Rocky Mountain locust.

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered several new species of butterflies and moths in Northern Australia, identifying a conservation stronghold of national and international significance.

Fairy wrens can learn to recognise the alarm calls of other species.

Seaweed plays an important role in coral reef biodiversity, with an important role in the lifecycle of several fishes.

Alexandra Catling indulges in her passion for scientific research on a trip to south east Asian forests. And discovers leeches.

The amazing diversity we see in Australian animal developed early and has slowed considerably in the last 10 million years, say Ian Brennan and Scott Keogh from the ANU Research School of Biology.