Australian sea lions are in trouble. Their population has never recovered from the impact of the commercial sealing that occurred mainly in the 19th century. Currently, the Australian sea lion is a ...

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Exploring the world’s seabeds is a complicated, expensive and long process. Typically, researchers send remotely operated vehicles into deep waters, where they face extremely high pressures and low ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

Ivermectin is an effective treatment for hookworm in the endangered Australian sea lion, University of Sydney research has found. Hookworm infection contributes to up to 40 per cent of pup deaths. In ...

Research from Adelaide University and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) has shown for the first time that Australian sea lion pups can learn foraging behaviour from their ...

Recent comments by Defence Minister Richard Marles about Australia, China and the international law of the sea raise the spectre of Australia acting as an Indo-Pacific “deputy sheriff” for the United ...

Canberra is accelerating plans to buy high-tech underwater weapons to protect ports, trade routes and communication lines from "potential aggressors," according to the Australian Defence Department.