Kevin ThieleApr 16, 20191 minA new tree - of our most iconic treesPhylogenies (family trees indicating likely evolutionary relationships between species and other taxa) are important tools of modern...
Kevin ThieleApr 16, 20191 minHow many wombats?This paper and an article on ABC News details recent genetic work indicating that three subspecies should be recognised in the common...
FrancescoMartoniApr 16, 20193 minNot cute enough to be loved or scary enough to be feared, but wonderful enough to be treasured.Despite being only an early career taxonomist, I've already had to endure many times the "why is this species important?" kind of...
Kevin ThieleApr 15, 20192 minSometimes, they're right under your nose....You might think we've discovered by now almost all of the large organisms in Australia, certainly the lizards and flowering plants, and...
Kevin ThieleApr 12, 20194 minA viral platypusSteve Wylie studies the smallest, strangest, most mind-bending organisms of all time - viruses. Everyone knows that viruses cause the...
Erinn Fagan-JeffriesApr 10, 20191 minChocolate biscuits and Doctor Who: Ten new species of waspsTen new species of parasitoid wasp have been described in a paper by Erinn Fagan-Jeffries (University of Adelaide) and colleagues, in a...