Many diseases, such as COVID-19, have made the jump from animals to people with serious consequences for the human host. 

Researchers from The University of Western Australia are part of a global team that has assembled the DNA of Southern Right Whales.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum have discovered 13 new species of the elusive ‘spricket’ in Australia’s north-west.

Research shows kea have the ability to distinguish between two different-coloured 1080 baits but cannot detect the presence of bird repellent in baits of the same colour, findings which might have implications for future 1080 operations.

In waters off the Northeast, fish and shellfish are moving northward at a significant rate.

Backed by $2 million from the federal government and partner organizations, University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers aim to make Arctic pipelines stronger and safer, protect the food supply, and improve crop processing with cutting-edge technology.

Microbiology professor Jim Holden, a researcher in the School of Earth and Sustainability, recently received a three-year, $441,219 grant from NASA’s Exobiology Program to study competition between different types of thermophilic, or heat-loving, microbes.

Predators form an unusual coexistence in the central Chilean Andes

From when they give birth to the timing of their migrations, animals are responding in unexpected ways to changes in their environment.

How exactly do birds “talk” to one another? And how can birdsong research help us understand communication in humans, too?