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27 May 2022
The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.
27 May 2022
To measure the speed of adaptive evolution in the wild, we studied 19 populations of birds and mammals over several decades. We found they were evolving at...
10 May 2022
The biologists and the linguists at ANU might sit on different sides of the campus, but Professor Lindell Bromham from the ANU Research School of Biology says...
4 Jan 2022
Have you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes moths...
2 Nov 2021
While Angus Rae focuses intently on a captivating microscopic world, he is actually working towards a solution for an environmental catastrophe occurring on a...
13 Sep 2021
Since it’s Bad Bird Season, we ask cuckoo apologist - sorry, cuckoo expert - Professor Naomi Langmore to explain how it could possibly be that the cuckoo doesn...
5 Jul 2021
Professor Bruno von Schmarotzersindwunderbarhausen in his idiosyncratic attire is not something you would see during a regular day on campus. He only appears...
29 Jun 2021
Australia has the world’s worst track record for wiping out mammals, with 34 species declared extinct since European colonisation. But today, we bring some...
8 Apr 2021
We met Professor Nicotra in the Snowy Mountains and asked what she learned from 2020.
18 Mar 2021
In healthy populations, the song of regent honeyeaters is complex and long. But where the population is very small, the song is sadly diminished.
2 Mar 2021
An impressive body of evidence published this week reveals the answer to a mystery that has puzzled plant scientists for more than 30 years: the role of the...