MARINE BIOLOGY  Sea cucumbers play an important role in tropical marine ecosystems, recycling nutrients on the ocean floor and mixing sediment. Healthy populations can enhance coral health. A collaborative study between the...

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Palaeontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo. Over the last decade, a series of discoveries around Lake Callabonna in arid South Australia have yielded multiple complete...

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