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eScience. Nautilus: The Australian living fossil under threat

"Irony is rare in science, and unknown in nature; it is a purely human concept. Yet there is a sad ironic twist to the likely future fate of the cephalopod nautilus, a shelled mollusc that is the last remnant of an ancestral order stretching back 500 million years, and who's exquisite, iconic and endlessly copied shape has not changed for more than 115 million years."

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"Alien" fossils found on Kangaroo Island have been identified as human relatives

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A Hypothetical Forum: Fast Forward to 2050 - Water Scenarios for South Australia’s future

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Media Release: Ancient fossils confirmed among our strangest cousins

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Modelling species distributions in fragmented landscapes: Seminar & short course presented by Fangliang He

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PhD position: Reconstructing Australian megafaunal extinction histories using luminescence dating techniques.

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7000 year old German farmer helps uncover genetic history of Europeans

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Vodcast: Satellite imagery tells a 25 year story - Erika Lawley

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Environment Institute eNewsletter September 2014

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Internationally renowned Richard Fortey to give keynote lecture at Adelaide University

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