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Offspring from a single sperm donor spent more time shoaling and were closer together Monogamous offspring stick closer together

Thursday, 4 September 2008
Birds of a feather stick together, and the same is true for guppies with the same father, say Australian researchers.
Subjects: animals, biology, sexuality, fish Locations: crawley-6009

Future prospects ... climate change modelling shows solo male tuataras may be the norm by 2085 at North Brother Island Male tuataras face dateless future

Wednesday, 2 July 2008
The male tuatara will be increasingly desperate and dateless as global warming leads to less female hatchlings being born by 2085, Australian researchers are predicting.
Subjects: climate-change, biology, ecology, evolution, reptiles Locations: university-of-melbourne-3010, crawley-6009, new-zealand

Chip off the old block ... a mother's diet during pregnancy can alter the onset of puberty in their children Mum's diet linked to onset of puberty

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Children whose mothers eat a high-fat diet during pregnancy are likely to enter puberty earlier and become obese as adults, a study presented in the US earlier today suggests.
Subjects: diet-and-nutrition, pregnancy-and-childbirth, menstruation Locations: crawley-6009, new-zealand, united-states

Animated impression of the ancient placoderm with her young Australians find a mother of a fossil

Thursday, 29 May 2008Article has video
The world's oldest mother and her baby have been found fossilised in north-western Australia, pushing the known record of live birth back by about 200 million years.
Subjects: breakthroughs, fossils, evolution, palaeontology, fish Locations: canberra-2600, melbourne-3000, crawley-6009, fitzroy-crossing-6765

High school formals can be a source of great trauma and humiliation, an Australian researcher says. And nerds play an important role in the power games Nerds seize power at school formals

Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Vote rigging and the overthrow of the elite are just part of the power play at high school formals, an Australian researcher has found.
Subjects: secondary, secondary-schools, adolescent-health, anthropology-and-sociology Locations: wa, crawley-6009, england

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