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In recent years, the Hawaiian Islands have faced a silent invasion that threatens their delicate ecosystems. The introduction ...
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To combat one of Australia’s most troublesome species, researchers are developing hungry tadpoles that never grow up ...
Cassie Fenton, 29, recently moved to the Sunshine Coast and told Yahoo News she was shocked by the sheer number of the toads ...
Genetically modified, cannibal tadpoles may be the solution to Australia’s nearly century-old invasive cane toad problem.
By removing a gene to stunt cane toads at their tadpole stage, scientists hope they may have found a way to make the invader ...
Quolls are threatened by the cane toad, which was introduced to Australia in 1935 in an attempt to control beetle pests that were devouring sugarcane roots. The experiment failed, with the toads ...
She points to Colossal’s partnership with the University of Melbourne to use gene editing to make the Australian quoll immune to the poison of the cane toad, a species introduced to the ...
With much of outback Queensland currently flooded, its only a matter of time before that water slowly moves down river into catchments in remote north-western New South Wales. Authorities are ...
A group of conservationists known as "toad patrollers" have been helping hundreds of toads and frogs safely cross a busy road in Surrey. The Boundary Road Toad Patrol, based in Rowledge near ...
A small Queensland town 1000 kilometres from the ocean has turned into an inland island as food and other products are being flown in and out. Mr Oates, 29, grew up in Quilpie and said the year ...
Several towns in central Queensland remain “inland islands” as other parts of the state prepare for the worst flooding in 50 years despite a reprieve in widespread heavy rain. Many river ...