Once thought to occur only in birds and mammals in the Northern Hemisphere, due to the more pronounced winters, we now know torpor is widespread in small Australian mammals.
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Tooth fossils from NSW have confirmed sauropods weren't exclusive to Queensland. They're also providing a first look at how these colossal dinosaurs fed from Australia's land.
Breeding pairs spend a great deal of time roosting together and the male often gently strokes the female with his beak.
The invasive species was likely brought to Australia unintentionally by ship. Now found in every state and territory, the wasps are decimating our ecosystems.
Wet and bulky cattle dung is very unlike marsupial dung that Australian dung beetles are adapted to deal with, meaning native dung beetles tend to leave it alone. But help from abroad is at hand.
The main food for the mountain pygmy-possum’s spring/summer breeding season is the migratory bogong moth, but in 2017 and 2018 billions of bogong moths failed to arrive. Then the bushfires did.
Australia's snakes, spiders and other venomous critters tend to strike fear in many people. But is Australia's reputation as a nation of deadly creatures deserved?
When is a galah not a galah? That depends on which scientific name is attached to the Australian bird. There's been some confusion over this, which DNA testing has finally solved.
At least 100,000 insects are among the many Australian species still to be formally identified. That's a problem for any biosecurity experts who need to be able to spot potentially invasive bugs.
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Deputy Director and ARC Future Fellow, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
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Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Research Director and Curator, Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, CSIRO
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Distinguished Professor and Director, Trophic Cascades Program, Oregon State University
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Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
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Environmental Scientist - Fauna, Parks Victoria; Honorary Fellow, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne
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Research Manager, MCATS, Faculty and Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow / EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University
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Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor , University of Western Australia
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Ph.D. student, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Environmental Science, Federation University Australia
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