Help to save rare humpback dolphins

Flinders researchers have confirmed the importance of the remote Ningaloo Reef in WA as a conservation site of significance for the rare and secretive Australian humpback dolphin.

Shark research hits its target

Thanks to crowdfunding supporters, shark ecologist Dr Charlie Huveneers will launch a new research project into the ‘secret lives’ of white sharks off South Australia’s remote Neptune Islands.

Trouble in Darwin’s paradise

A parasite killing Darwin’s finches on the famed Galápagos Islands is causing a dramatic escalation in Darwin’s theory of natural selection, new research has revealed.

Fossil hunters do the brain warp

An international team of scientists from Flinders University and Sweden are ‘doing the brain warp’ in a bid to understand the evolution of a very ‘brainy’ fish species.