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From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How …

During the summer of 2019-2020, half of Australia’s third-largest island was on fire. Kangaroo Island, also known as …

In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave …

New research published in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 …

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is …

Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first …

The Mangareva Islands are about 1,600 km southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. They get their name (which …

Odin was a kelpie. Attentive and protective, with a happy smile and an endless hope for food, he …

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases — the molecular “letters” of life — have been detected …

Earth is teeming with life: Creatures big and small have spread and adapted to vastly different environments. Many …