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I have written about the freshwater crayfish of Australia before in this column, but I have not told you that one of the special things about them is the animals that rely on crayfish. There are two ways…
The Murray River was listed as critically endangered on August 5, the day before the Australian federal government went into caretaker mode before the election campaign. The Weekly Times claimed that this…
This is National Science Week in Australia. I know this because I am a scientist who lives with a science teacher, so we have conversations like , “What are you going to do for science week?” “Oh, gosh…
A recent paper in Science has announced the discovery of an organism that is going to require a reappraisal of our assumptions about viruses, evolution and the history of life. The authors named the organism…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations released a report on Monday called Edible Insects: Future prospects for food and feed security and since then news outlets have been looking…
Yesterday’s announcement of the removal of trout from a small creek in the Alpine National Park to protect a critically endangered native fish highlights the problem that is trout. Trout have been so successfully…
Last week, Victorian Fisheries announced changes to the fishing regulations for Murray Spiny Freshwater Crayfish to bring them in line with recent changes in New South Wales. This is a quick turnaround…
Fisheries NSW have recently announced large changes to the rules about fishing for Murray crayfish after calling for the status of this species to be changed. The Murray crayfish is now considered vulnerable…
I welcome yesterday’s announcement that the Victorian government will continue to contribute to the Murray Darling Basin Authority. Recent cuts by the New South Wales and South Australian governments have…
Last week a group of Japanese scientists published a paper describing a sea slug with a disposable penis. As strange as this sounds to us, the concept of the detachable penis is not a surprise to malacologists…