Are wombats the accidental heroes of the Australian bush? After the Black Summer bushfires, we set up 56 cameras to capture animal activity in areas with and without wombat burrows to find out.
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Contributors to the WomSAT website have already reported more than 23,000 wombat sightings. We can use the data to cut the risks to wombats – and anyone with a smartphone can help.
Despite their solitary lifestyle, wombats are at risk from a disease that spreads via their burrows.
It can be hard and costly to collect data on the threats to species at specific locations. Wildlife emergency response services have long-running records for hundreds of species that suffered harm.
Nimbadon lived 15 million years ago, in forests with flesh-eating kangaroos and tree-climbing crocodiles. Our first look inside their fossilised bones has revealed how these giants grew.
Death by exhaustion, cannibalism, complete body fusion: across the animal kingdom, mating takes many strange forms.
Australia’s Red Centre was once a lush forest filled with strange creatures – and we are slowly discovering more about this enigmatic past.
80,000 years ago, Australia’s landscape was dominated by much larger versions of today’s marsupials – including enigmatic and enormous wombats.
Many animals have evolved very entertaining – if not impolite – strategies for evolutionary success.
As the holiday season begins after months of reduced travel, wildlife hospitals are braced for a new wave of admissions.
The extinct Mukupirna - which translates to ‘big bones’ - is estimated to have been more than four times larger than any living wombat.
Wombats don’t herd animals to shelter in their fire-proof burrows, they just tolerate uninvited house guests.
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Professor, Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Biology, University of Salford
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Professor, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Biology, Zoology, Animal Science, Western Sydney University
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Senior lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Researcher in Koala, Detection Dogs, Conservation Genetics and Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Wildlife Ecology, University of Tasmania
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PhD Candidate in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Curator, Natural History Museum
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UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Lecturer, Environmental Science, School of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University
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Research fellow in spider crab ecology, Deakin University
