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.
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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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Senior lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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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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Professor, Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Flinders University
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Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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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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Professor emeritus, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Wildlife Ecology, University of Tasmania
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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
