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| UpdatedA green and red Tasmanian slug is the latest animal to be named after naturalist David Attenborough, who was honoured today as a lifetime patron of the Australian Museum.
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See where you stand with our quiz based on the Australian Curriculum for students between Year 7 and Year 10. If you don't know the answer, ask a school student!
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A bacterium dubbed the "platypus of microbiology" is even stranger than first thought, with the discovery it contains structures normally only found in more complex cells.
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Meeting someone via a matchmaking set-up can be awkward for humans, let alone apes. But a Dutch zoo is hoping a project dubbed "Tinder for Orangutans" could help find more suitable partners for their females by allowing them to choose potential mates before being introduced.
Topics: animals, biology, human-interest, netherlands
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Australian-based scientists are punching holes in Antarctica's sea floor to measure the impact of climate change on one of the world's most important oxygen producers.
Topics: climate-change, earth-sciences, marine-biology, biology, research, research-organisations, antarctica
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Queensland University of Technology researchers have mounted a high definition, or UAV camera, on a drone to help build a fingerprint of the Ningaloo Reef, showing coral, sand, algae and other species.
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| UpdatedScientists have mapped out newly-discovered parts of the coral reef system in Moreton Bay, off the south-east Queensland coast, with the hopes it will help inform decisions to protect the small but diverse system.
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| UpdatedA marine creature captured on Queensland's Sunshine Coast that a Facebook user claimed to be a box jellyfish confuses locals not used to seeing the deadly animal in their waters.
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A leopard shark in a Queensland aquarium has shocked scientists by being the first in the world to give birth without a male, after previously mating in the usual way.
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| UpdatedA leopard shark in a Queensland aquarium shocks scientists by becoming the first in the world to give birth without a male, after previously mating in the usual way.
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| UpdatedThe Great Barrier Reef has teetered on the edge of extinction in the past and recovered, a new study into its history reveals, but scientist say there are new threats.
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Dr Takahiro Shimada from JCU dives on a turtle in waters off Gladstone to tag and attach a transmitter to it.
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| UpdatedFour people are stung by Irukandji jellyfish off Fraser Island, as experts reinforce warnings the tiny but deadly creatures are moving south and could soon be on Queensland's popular Sunshine Coast beaches.
Topics: community-and-society, science-and-technology, marine-biology, biology, hervey-bay-4655, maroochydore-4558
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Scientists have stumbled across a thriving underwater garden on the sea floor of Antarctica.
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| UpdatedIt was a big year in science — with tremendous advances in our understanding of the world around us from the ancient universe to the future of artificial intelligence and designer genes. See how well you do at our quiz recapping the weird and wonderful year in science.
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Researchers in central Queensland collect thousands of seagrass seeds with the aim of developing a set of instructions on how to grow the important marine plant from seed.
Topics: marine-biology, biology, science-and-technology, environment, marine-parks, oceans-and-reefs, great-barrier-reef, conservation, gladstone-4680, qld
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It is surprising to see so many great white sharks off the New South Wales far north coast this late in the year, a senior research scientist from the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) says.
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Plants have memory and can learn how to predict future events based on their association with past occurrences, new research from the University of Western Australia suggests.
Topics: biology, science-and-technology, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedScientists from across the country carry out the biggest biological stocktake ever completed on Fraser Island.
Topics: animal-science, earth-sciences, biology, biological-diversity, hervey-bay-4655
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Adelaide palaeontologist Professor John Long is travelling to Antarctica in search of fossils to prove humans evolved from fish.
Topics: palaeontology, geology, evolution, biology, human-interest, adelaide-5000, antarctica
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| UpdatedA pregnant bottlenose dolphin is released back into waters off the Gold Coast after getting caught on a drumline this past weekend.
Topics: animals, human-interest, marine-biology, biology, science-and-technology, southport-4215