Platypuses are drowning in Australian waterways, tangled in fishing line and trapped in closed nets meant for freshwater crayfish or yabbies. But we can fix this.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Monotremes
Displaying all articles
We sampled 118 rivers and creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. Here’s what we found.
Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting
Echidnas can survive quite low levels of oxygen.
A new evolutionary perspective on what’s been a medical paradox: Why does the body use inflammation to regulate aspects of pregnancy when inflammation is also a big threat to pregnancy?
New technology reveals that digging echidnas play a crucial role in Australia’s ecosystems.
A new study by Rebecca Pian, Mike Archer and Sue Hand, published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, describes the tooth of a new, giant species of extinct platypus. The fossil history of…
We know, because it’s big news, that drug-resistant infections are on the rise globally. But could Australian mammals hold the key to a fightback? Our current crop of antibiotics is in danger of becoming…
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University
-
Lecturer, Macquarie University
-
Professor, University of Sydney
-
Lecturer in Animal Ecophysiology, University of the Sunshine Coast
-
Lecturer, Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
-
Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Senior Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University
-
Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
-
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Sydney
-
PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University
