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These artists use music to advocate for conservation
Can music stir you to protect the environment?
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Discovery identifies Australia as birthplace of all modern mammals
Research has uncovered evidence that the evolution of mammals began in the Southern Hemisphere, not the Northern Hemisphere, challenging hundreds of years of scientific dogma.
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Giant wombats roamed the continent and now we have a complete description of their melons
The most complete skull of a giant wombat that roamed the continent 80,000 years ago has been described for the first time in history.
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Snakes have clitorises
Snakes have clitorises, and we have a full anatomical description of them for the first time. “But why is this important?” we hear you ask.
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Krill’s time to shine in new research facility
There are big plans in the works to conserve one of Antarctica’s smallest species.
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Greatest show on Earth: crabby babies return in time for Christmas
It’s that time of year, when baby red crabs make a dash for safety and become the meal of many a voracious predator on Christmas Island.
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‘This was a star that lived fast and died young’: James Webb Space Telescope images show a star’s murder scene
The first images of a nebula from the James Webb Telescope gave astronomers remarkable insights into the death of the star that created these beautiful haloes of gas and dust.
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“Another world entirely”: 16 hours to the South Pole and back
The first commercial scenic flight (direct from Australia) to the South Pole takes you to “another world entirely”.
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Oldest DNA ever found reveals a vanished world 2 million years old
New DNA, more than a million years older than the previous record, is helping researchers study molecules that were made inside plants and animals 2 million years ago, opening a new window into the history of life on Earth.