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Australian researchers have discovered mosquitoes act like tiny ‘flying wildlife surveyors’, collecting the DNA of elusive ...

Many of our native mice and rats are quietly creeping towards extinction, but a pookila breeding project in metropolitan ...

Palaeontologists have used an Ice Age fossil to reveal extinct giant echidnas roamed south-eastern Australia during the ...

Living like mammals in a land without them, Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless birds are an evolutionary enigma.

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Alice Springs has achieved almost mythical fame as a popular subject in poems, songs and novels, the most famous being Nevil ...