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Peiyu Yuan
Tuesday, 07 May 2019

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.

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Monday, 04 Mar 2019

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.

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Bukit Timah, Singapore. Image Shoshana Rapley
Thursday, 20 Dec 2018

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

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Thursday, 20 Dec 2018

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

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Thursday, 20 Dec 2018

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

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Tuesday, 13 Nov 2018

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.

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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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