Smoky mouse 'could go extinct without us looking', say Victorian scientists
More resources are needed to monitor the 100 recorded smoky mice, or Pseudomys fumeus, in the wild in tiny populations in Victoria and NSW...
View ArticleScientists are excited about 'Lady Gaga's' kids: Rare, giant stick insects
The children of a giant, rare stick insect named after Lady Gaga — or Lady Gaga-ntuan — have become the first such insects to successfully breed in captivity. On Friday, Australia's Museum Victoria...
View ArticleURI student studies reptiles, amphibians at Virginia national park...
(Source: University of Rhode Island) Media Contact: Todd McLeish, 401-874-2116 Eagleville, Pa., resident takes first place in student research competition KINGSTON, R.I. â€' January 4, 2016 â€'...
View ArticleGiant goanna snapped in Thurgoona man's backyard
A NSW man was killing time in his shed earlier this week when he came across a monster lizard in his backyard. Eric Holland was quick enough to snap a photo of the estimated 1.5-metre lace monitor on...
View ArticleResearch can help Californians live safety with wildlife (UCCE Central Sierra)
(Source: UCCE Central Sierra) A ewe and her lamb at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center. (Photo: Robert Keiffer) Winter is typically lambing season on Northern California sheep ranches - a...
View ArticleOh Deer: A Tricky Conservation Problem For Tasmania
Deer were introduced into Australia in the 19th century for hunting. There are now six species roaming wild, and their numbers are increasing dramatically as their population expands and through human...
View ArticleUsing herpes virus to eradicate feral fish? Carp diem! (CSIRO - Commonwealth...
(Source: CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) The Murray River - currently 90% of biomass in the Murray-Darling basin consists of carp. They breed like rabbits and put...
View ArticleSea snakes thought to be extinct spotted in Western Australian Ningaloo Reef
Humans haven't seen a living short-nosed sea snake in 15 years. But there they were, two such snakes swimming along in the waters of the Western Australian Ningaloo Reef. Luckily, a park ranger snapped...
View ArticleAustralia Day cane toad races cancelled
Controversy and a lack of manpower has prompted Coolum's popular Australia Day cane toad race to croak. Coolum Lions Australia...
View ArticleHow the Japanese tsunami sent marine invaders across the ocean (UNSW - The...
(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) Human-made debris such as plastic have vastly increased the numbers of marine species crossing the oceans, write Emma Johnston and Jim Carlton....
View ArticleHow the Japanese tsunami sent marine invaders across the ocean – and why you...
(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) Human-made debris such as plastic have vastly increased the numbers of marine species crossing the oceans, write Emma Johnston and Jim Carlton....
View ArticlePoachers using science papers to target newly discovered species
Journals begin withholding locations after warnings the data is helping smugglers drive lizards, snakes and frogs to ‘near-extinction’...
View ArticleQuantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies
Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the human population. Parenting our daughters here...
View ArticleA fish called Tim Winton: scientists name new species after novelist
The ‘very beautiful’ gold and silver coloured grunter is one of 20 newly-identified fish species from the remote Kimberley in Western Australia...
View ArticleNew Amphibian Study Helps Smithsonian Scientists Prioritize Frogs at Risk of...
(Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo) For Release: January 4, 2016 Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and partners have published a paper that will help them save Panamanian frog species from...
View ArticleGang-gang: Rosenberg's Monitors in courtship mode in 'jungle' of Mt Ainslie
While human Canberra figuratively snoozes in its summer holiday hammock (waiting for God's gift of Summernats to get the year really started), wild Canberra remains effervescently busy. So, for...
View ArticleResearchers Train Wild Lizards To Avoid Eating Toxic Toads
Leaving a bad taste in their mouths...
View ArticleFishers and conservationists urge release of herpes virus to kill Murray...
Unlikely alliance says specialised disease will transform rivers and protect native fish species after exponential growth in numbers of the European invader...
View ArticleWhat cane toads taught Queensland’s banana growers about defeating a deadly...
When Panama TR4 disease struck the heart of Australia’s banana-growing region, it triggered a biosecurity crackdown that marked the end of the line for a third-generation farming family, but averted...
View ArticleGenetic changes in birds could shed light on human mitochondrial diseases...
(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) The discovery that starlings carrying a new mutation in their mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of cells, almost tripled their population within...
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