The volunteer brigade from Terip Terip went through "hell" and back, narrowly escaping death, while fighting to save their own community and those nearby.

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Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the...

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Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers to do the dirty work for them through a kind of chemical subterfuge

Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings