Bite-size clue to a lost marsupial
An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert – and Flinders University […]
Clever way to study bird brains
It’s difficult to know what birds ‘think’ when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds’ […]
Rare rodent adapts to noxious weed
In a twist to the native animal survival story, new research shows that a threatened rodent that only survives on offshore islands prefers one of Australia’s […]
Crunch time for marsupials
From sifting through topsoil for native truffles to cracking open hard shells of seeds and nuts to munch on the tasty kernels, Australia bettongs and potoroos […]
Rock-wallaby bite size ‘packs a punch’
Australian rock-wallabies are ‘little Napoleons’ when it comes to compensating for small size, packing much more punch into their bite than larger relatives. Researchers from Flinders […]
Why the long face? Now we know
Horses have developed long faces simply ‘because they can,’ a team of evolutionary biologists say. In a major review of how mammalian heads evolve, scientists from […]
Hawk eyes reveal hunters visual secrets
The world’s only nocturnal hawk, Australia’s Letter-Winged Kite, may not be any better at seeing in the dark than its closest, day-hunting relatives. An international study […]
How mammals evolved bigger brains
Scientists have pieced together a timeline of how brain and body size evolved in mammals over the last 150 million years by comparing the brain mass […]
Solving the mammal brain size puzzle
A new study has revealed a surprising lack of support for widely-held explanations of why some mammals evolve larger brains than expected for their body size. […]