Sadly, Ian Brooker, who for several decades was the peerless expert on eucalypt taxonomy, died a week ago.

As an egg-laying mammal, the platypus, alongside the echidna, occupies a unique place in the phylogenetic tree. Despite widespread interest in its unusual

A premier annual bioinformatics training event in Australia for 13 years, the Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology will be held 4 to 8 July

This week we will discuss a paper on the Eocene obduction of New Caledonia, and the controversy on whether any flora survived in situ (whatever that means),

Thirty accomplished scientists from the Research School of Biology will present their research in a day-long symposium of short 8-minute 'flash talks'.

Monsoonal climate is supposed to be less 15 Myr old but in a new paper Susanne Renner argues that there are different monsoons with different histories.

Christmas Island National Park ranger Brendan Tiernan will discuss Parks Australia’s success in bringing back two species of endemic Christmas Island

Spatial Phylogenetics - combining molecular phylogenetics with collection-based data to interpret evolutionary and ecological history, as well as better inform

This week we will discuss a timely reminder that a sound education in natural history underpins all of biology, and without which biology becomes an esoteric