Australia

Australians are resorting to increasingly drastic measures to keep cockatoos out of their garbage bins.

Launched with a $172 million philanthropic donation and funds from the state of Victoria, the Melbourne-based research institute aims to construct drug discovery platforms to speed the introduction of new therapies.

Off the western Australian coast, in Shark Bay, a field of seagrass big enough to cover Washington, DC, has flourished for more than four millennia, a new study finds.

A survey showed that 91 percent of the reef experienced bleaching despite this year’s cooler, wetter conditions associated with the La Niña weather pattern.

Deletions in the sleepy lizard genome leave it without an important type of T cells found in most other vertebrates.

Southern Australia has recorded its first-ever cases of the disease in an outbreak that has so far killed three people.

Record-breaking rainfall has caused widespread flooding and devastation in Queensland and New South Wales, forcing the closure of some university campuses.

It was the first time a bird has removed a tracking device, and the second time a bird species showed cooperative “rescue” behavior.

The size and complexity of cephalopod brain structures differ depending on the habitats the creatures occupy, a study finds.

Analysis of DNA from remains found in an Indonesian cave provides new insight into human movements among the islands between East Asia and Australia.

Spores found in 480 million-year-old rock bring the fossil record in line with molecular estimates of when plants first adapted to life on land.

The Australian biomedical research community is stunned by the announced wind-down of the country’s biggest supplier of mice and rats.

Watch one scurry around upside down in a remarkably unusual form of locomotion.

A population explosion that began late last year has yet to abate. Meanwhile, researchers are exploring novel approaches to combat the nonnative species.

Randomized, controlled research conducted in an Indonesian city confirms the reduction in cases seen with previous observational work.

The species include the first reptile to be listed and the Christmas Island pipistrelle, a bat last seen in 2009.

An illegal campfire sparked a blaze that has burned half of the unique Fraser Island off Australia’s East coast.

Conservation biologist John Ewen discusses the recent reintroduction of Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia after a 3,000-year absence and issues that need to be considered when bringing long-departed animals back into an area.

Rescue teams are working to save the whales that are still alive and develop a strategy to remove the dead in the Australian state’s largest stranding event to date.