After 200 years of European farming practices, Australian soils are in bad shape – depleted of nutrients and organic matter, including carbon. This is bad news for both soil health and efforts to address global warming.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2021
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These days, mammals can use their forelimbs to swim, jump, fly, climb, dig and just about everything in between, but the question of how all that diversity evolved has remained a vexing one for scientists.
Evolution
Nov 17, 2018
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The Australian public is being called on to help better understand and conserve our iconic native echidna, by collecting echidna scats (poo) and taking photographs wherever echidnas or scats are spotted.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2017
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Sydney's Taronga Zoo is celebrating its first successful echidna births in 30 years with three healthy babies, known as puggles, from three different mums hatching within days of each other.
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2016
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A team of Australian scientists has found that the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is a keystone species on the continent. In the Journal of Experimental Biology, they report that echidnas mix and move soil ...
Ecology
Oct 21, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with the University of New England, Curtin University and the University of Western Australia has discovered how echidnas manage to survive brush fires. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
(Phys.org) —The function of a spur on the hind leg of echidnas has been revealed by research at the University of Sydney.
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2013
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A new Murdoch University-led study has highlighted the relationship between the loss of Australian digging mammals and ecosystem decline.
Ecology
Sep 25, 2013
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The western long-beaked echidna, one of the world's five egg-laying species of mammal, became extinct in Australia thousands of years ago…or did it? Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have found evidence suggesting that ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 2, 2013
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An international team including University of Adelaide scientists has discovered the molecular change in echidnas enabling both parents to influence the growth of the embryo during pregnancy in mammals.
Biotechnology
Dec 7, 2012
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