Why killer whales attack white shark

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 […]

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’ […]

Deadly spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’

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 […]

Murray flood impacts short-lived

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 […]

Sniffer dogs help track lizards

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 […]

Penguins struggle with intruders

Little penguin habitats and colonies are under threat from urban development and human activities, a new article in the journal Behaviour says. Flinders University animal behaviour […]

Feral pig campaign hits targets

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, that razed more than half of the landscape on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, left an indelible mark on the […]