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David Campbell receives funding from the NZ Ministry for Primary Industries and the Agricultural GHG Research Centre. Before her retirement as an employee of CSIRO, Helen Cleugh received funding from ...

Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world's species of animals, birds, plants and insects—between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and mammals and just under 50% ...

An immaculately preserved fossil of a mygalomorph spider (Mygalomorphae) has been uncovered by researchers excavating at the McGraths Flat, a fossil site in New South Wales, Australia. The ...

A new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous.