Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the ...

With no sightings for half a century and a landscape heavily impacted by cattle grazing, botanists feared the worst. The plant had only been spotted once before, in 1925, in Australia. After that ...

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The CEO of AAAS is cautiously optimistic about federal funding for science, even as uncertainty makes research challenging.

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A bizarre new bee species has just been revealed after hiding in plain sight for over two decades. With strange facial features and an isolated habitat, this tiny insect could rewrite what we know ...

The world's largest mistletoe, a spider the size of your fingernail and colourful bell-shaped plants that flower just in time for the festive season. These iconic species of flora and fauna are some ...

The new Bureau website, which went live on October 22, is missing nearly 40 towns and locations listed on the original radar. The Advertiser compared the new radar map to the old one, noting the ...

Australia’s dominance as the largest donor to Pacific Island countries is set to grow as the Pacific faces deepening aid cuts by other Western partners, including the United States, New Zealand and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The immensely popular purple trees are considered invasive in certain parts of the country. Source: Yahoo News Australia Every ...

First, it’s an upside-down goal: a resource-driven economy supplying a massive share of the world’s essential commodities and already producing some of the planet’s lowest-emission fossil fuels is ...

Amid a season of significant designer debuts – Matthieu Blazy at Chanel, Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga among them – Australian designer Christopher Esber made his ...