This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.

Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.

ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the environmental outcomes of the burns.

There's a growing movement to decolonise mathematics. Professor Rowena Ball explains what this means and why it is important.

What business does a wild animal have in contributing to our domestic bliss?

This ANU researcher isn’t afraid of shaking things up — making her own volcanic eruptions to better understand how they cause our climate to change.

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

The white-winged chough is one of the weirder birds out there.