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NZ’s unique fossil record of marine molluscs helps scientists predict extinction risk – before it’s too late
AI Could Help Endangered Birds
Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history
Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural history
Researchers discover the fossil of a new hamster-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs on the Pacific Coast
Phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions
Leap Of Hope: Meet Researchers Fighting Frog Extinction
How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises
With every extinction, we lose not just a species but a treasure trove of knowledge
Bezos grant to fund AI innovations to monitor and protect wildlife
Ancient ‘salt mountains’ in southern Australia once created refuges for early life
Massive hole in modelling – Labor’s low ambition target excludes costs of more fires, floods and heatwaves
Labor’s utter failure of a climate target is a massive win for coal and gas corporations
Dagger beaks and strong wings: new fossils rewrite the penguin story and affirm NZ as a cradle of their evolution
Land clearing under Labor jumps staggering 40%, worse than Coalition
Gene editing technology could be used to save species on the brink of extinction
New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them
Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why
Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity
For the first time, fossil stomach contents of a sauropod dinosaur reveal what they really ate
A secret mathematical rule has shaped the beaks of birds and other dinosaurs for 200 million years
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
Smoked: salmon carve-out burns Labor and Coalition environment credentials
Are Volcanoes Behind Oxygen We Breathe?
Why International Condom Day will help endangered specie
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
How ancient flying reptiles ruled the skies – new research
Proceedings from ASHS 2022 Invasive Plants Research Workshop on Invasive Offenders
Ravaged jungle: just 25% of the world’s surviving tropical rainforests are in good condition
As the Taurid meteor shower passes by Earth, pseudoscience rains down – and obscures a potential real threat from space
Symbiosis In Ancient Corals
This beautiful peacock spider was only found two years ago. Now it could be dancing its last dance
Nasa’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will investigate whether an icy moon of Jupiter can support alien life
Labor must stop undermining global anti-deforestation action
The Earth’s inner core is a total mystery – here’s how we’re starting to solve it
‘Masters of shape-shifting’: How darkling beetles conquered the world
SPECIES SURVIVAL IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS SYDNEY SCIENCE TRAIL RETURNS FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK
Could dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the world? A paleontologist explains
Searching for a female partner for the world’s ‘loneliest’ plant
Fossil captures starfish splitting itself in two – showing this has been happening for 155 million years
Why evolution often favours small animals and other organisms
How a teenager helped identify a new species of giant marine reptile
Museum Partnership Invites Public Into Research
Flowers may be more ancient than dinosaurs – but scientists can’t agree on when they evolved
Growing quickly helped the earliest dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles flourish in the aftermath of mass extinction
Exploding stars are rare but emit torrents of radiation − if one happened close enough to Earth, it could threaten life on the planet
A brief guide to birdwatching in the age of dinosaurs
Mass extinction: our fossil study reveals which types of species are most at risk from climate change

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