Researchers are studying the genetics of colourful coral fish, in order to identify which species could help re-colonise reefs damaged by global warming.
Flores, the Indonesian island where skeletal remains of famous "hobbit hominids" were found in 2003, was colonised by humans much earlier than thought, scientists said on Wednesday.
... is in great dangerThe human race must colonise space within the next two centuries ...
... group that includes humans, apes, and monkeys - 'colonised' Africa, rather than originally evolving in Africa ...
Several dozen Indonesian women founded the colonisation of Madagascar 1,200 years ago, scientists said on Wednesday in a probe into one of the strangest episodes in the human odyssey.
... of Madagascar, one is surrounded by ghosts. Since human colonisation in the 17th century, the island has lost most of its unique ...
A University of Adelaide palaeontologist has helped to uncover compelling new evidence that New Zealand was discovered 1000 years later than commonly believed.
... and in the nostrils of many healthy people. "MRSA often colonises hospital patients to no ill effect ...
... and induces a local inflammatory response. This is unlike colonisation, which does not cause such a response and does not occur ...
... a high latitude lake viable for animal colonisation that indicates a dramatic change in the climate of this region ...
Australian researchers have sent native seeds into orbit to test their resilience in space and whether or not they could help colonise other planets one day.
... at two types of metal tolerant bacteria which colonise the leaves of the oil seed rape plants ...
... on how the immune system detects and destroys the bug when it colonises the nose. The study is published in PLoS Pathogens ...
... and go in a pattern of local extinction and re-colonisation. By studying the mitochondrial DNA of spiny damselfish ... in its genes. "If populations on the edge of the distribution are the ones that we rely on to colonise new habitats, then we need to make ...
... is the first to show physical evidence that the people who colonised the Caribbean from South America brought with them ...