Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, scientists have re-created the habitat of "polar dinosaurs," using these ...

Forest ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer says the shock discovery of critically endangered Leadbeater's possum is likely ...

Our new research suggests warmer conditions helped flowering plants migrate across the globe and colonize understorey habitats shortly after evolving. Increased competition also contributed to the ...

Widely distributed in England and Wales, the Marsh Tit favours mature deciduous woodland habitat with some understorey in which to forage. Never numerous, the species is seen mostly in singles or ...