The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show that its skull functioned differ...

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A new study has found that Tasmanian tigers had an adaptation is found in no living carnivorous mammal.

Nature Communications - The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show...

Dipnoans (lungfishes) reached their peak of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity during the Devonian Period, followed by a pronounced decline in both thereafter. The Late Devonian (Famen...

While running experiments and collecting data are important things, they don’t contribute to science unless we write up the results and share them with our colleagues and the world.  This means tha…

Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird: Cranial scans reveal a brain with clever sensory adaptations

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In the three-and-a-half centuries since the flightless Dodo bird was wiped out, the word “dodo” has become synonymous with dim-witted and dumb. But now, new research studying their skulls is showing t...

Lungfishes are commonly considered to be the sister group to tetrapods. They appeared around 415 million years ago, then rapidly evolved, diversified and spread. Although many morphological characteri...

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Dodo skull scans show the famously extinct birds were no less brainy than their surviving relatives – and may have roamed at dusk and dawn.

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

Native Australian animals range from high-hopping kangaroos to fast-running emus—but clever little bettongs also have a special ability to find and eat the food they love.

The dominant species in the algal bloom which devastated SA's coastline, Karenia cristata, is the most toxic of its kind studied, according to newly published research.

A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna.

With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for national and state elections, institutions are facing up to proposed restrictions on academic freedom.

It was late 2021 when one of Australia's rarest birds started to arrive in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had expected it but for a reacting forestry sector, it was "not sustainable".

Jennings et al. show that local bird population trends across North America are shaped by multiple forms of environmental change, including light pollution, air quality, climate, and urbanization. Spe...

Nearly half of all living vertebrate diversity can be traced back to a single lineage of lobe-finned fishes (piscine sarcopterygians) that radiated during the Palaeozoic Era. In recent years, the phy...

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.