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#EpicDuckChallenge: How accurate are different wildlife monitoring approaches?

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Undergrad students get private look at Naracoorte caves

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Naracoorte Caves featured on SBS News

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October's Science in the Pub is on ecology!

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New species of bat described; named after Sir David Attenborough

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Media Release: Mapping the thylacine鈥檚 mysterious loss from mainland

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Video: Fieldwork investigating sea snakes species diversity in WA

Below is a guest post from Honours student Charlotte Nitschke about her research and field work on sea snake species diversity in Western Australia.
Charlotte is supervised by , Dr Vinay Udyawer (Australian Institute of Marine Science) and Dr Mathew Hourston (WA Dept of Fisheries), with valuable partnerships with local commercial prawn trawlers.

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Event: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

The number of people displaced by war and persecution is at an all-time high. As needs grow, governments are struggling to find responses that are sustainable at scale, and international institutions are failing. Camps and boats have too often become the dominant focus of policy, perpetuating an assumption of refugees as inevitably vulnerable or threatening.

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Widespread Media Coverage for "Dinosaur eating frog"

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Media Release: Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog

Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been capable of eating small dinosaurs.

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