Science news articles about 'mainland Australia'

... became temporarily connected by a land bridge to mainland Australia. None of Tasmania's giant animals ... the last glaciation. "The Tasmanian results echo those on mainland Australia, putting humans squarely back ...

... . New research by a team of palaeontologists and archaeologists from Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, who studied fossil evidence ... show that the ancestor of the Komodo dragon evolved on mainland Australia, around 3-4 million ...

... ." For millions of years, Thylacinus cynocephalus roamed mainland Australia. Its numbers declined as humans settled ... term evolutionary convergence. When dingoes arrived in Australia, they helped push the thylacines out. But Figueirido and Christine ...

... Diego, includes other scientists at institutions and universities in Australia, Denmark, and the United States. The results of the study ... breeding programs, such as the ones currently underway in Tasmania and on mainland Australia. Schuster explained that the genetic diversity ...

... of devils in large enclosures are being established in Tasmania and mainland Australia. According to Mr Beeton: "It is important also to establish disease-free wild living populations on islands ...

... genetic variability prior to its extinction. This might have been caused by geographical isolation when Tasmania was isolated from mainland Australia 10-13 thousand years ...

... of remains revealed that dingoes were bigger than thylacines on mainland Australia, where female thylacines were not much ... Crowther from the School of Biological Sciences has found that thylacines on mainland Australia were smaller than those that persisted into modern times ...

... once inhabited the continent of Sahul, which included mainland Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. "These leviathans ... cores, ancient lake levels in central Australia, and other environmental indicators also suggest Sahul -- which was at times ...