To understand why kangaroos hop – a rarity among animals – Flinders University researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs […]
Flinders University coastal experts are now finding more cost-efficient ways to capture crucial seascape elevation data (bathymetry), through current research projects that are monitoring environmental change […]
Hydrology experts at Flinders University are calling for urgent investigations into the operation of bore-fields that access fresh groundwater on Pacific islands, including Kiribati, where rising […]
Nano and microplastics pollution is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time – and global experts will meet in Adelaide to discuss advanced […]
For the first time, DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite […]
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’ […]
An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia’s most famous spider, the Sydney funnel-web. With a bite more deadly to humans than that […]
Many environmental responses to the largest River Murray flood in 70 years appear short-lived as ecosystems return to pre-flood conditions. The flood event in the South […]
Detection dogs are out in the field this summer helping to locate endangered pygmy bluetongue lizards as part of a two-year conservation project in the Northern […]