Canberra, October 18 : A biologist has said that despite climate change threatening Australia’s iconic kangaroos, the people of the country should not stop themselves from eating the marsupial’s meat, as monitoring their decline could help save them from extinction.

According to a report by ABC News, Dr Euan Ritchie, of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, made the statement.

Ritchie, from the School of Marine and Tropical Biology, said that a rise in average temperatures in northern Australia of just 2 degree Celsius could reduce suitable habitat for kangaroo populations by as much as 50 percent.

Canberra, Oct 14 : A new research has determined that DNA in the bones of Adelie penguins that survived the last ice age are helping to shed light on how other animals will cope with climate change.

Adelie penguins have been surviving extreme climate change in Antarctica for hundreds and thousands of years.

According to a report by ABC News, evolutionary biologist Professor David Lambert of Griffith University in Brisbane and colleagues carried out the analysis of Adelie penguin DNA dating back to 37,000 years.

Canberra, Oct 14 : A new research has determined that due to climate change, seabird populations on the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding waters is facing dramatic declines.

The research has been complied by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

It addresses the impact of climate change on seabirds, and obtained by The Australian under freedom of information laws.

Canberra, Oct 14: The hoax ‘body’ of Bigfoot, which was found to be a Halloween costume made of rubber, has been put on sale by eBay, complete with the basement freezer it was kept in.

According to a report by Fox News, the hoax came into being after two Georgia residents, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, recently claimed that they had discovered the frozen corpse of a Bigfoot.

But, Tom Biscardi, owner of a Bigfoot exploration website, decided to get under the skin of things, and hired a self-described “Sasquatch detective” Steve Kulls to solve the mystery.

Canberra, Oct 13 : A new study by Australian researchers has found out that fiddler crabs build chimneys around their burrows to keep intruders out.

According to a report by ABC News, a team at the Australian National University in Canberra has reported its findings on Uca capricornis, the technical name for the fiddler crab, in the journal Biology Letters.

Fiddler crabs live on tidal mudflats and lock themselves away in air-filled sealed burrows when the tide comes in, according to team member Rachel Slatyer, a behavioural ecology student, who carried out the research under the supervision of Dr Patricia Blackwell.

Canberra, Oct 9: A new research has suggested that a lot of sediment in the water is bad for corals, and may even prevent them from ever re-establishing.

That’s the latest startling evidence to emerge from research into the likely fate of reefs under climate change and rising sea levels, at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) in Australia.

The killer blow for a degraded coral reef is a thick mat of sand and weeds that shrouds the rocky surfaces on which the corals would normally grow, preventing them from re-establishing.

This gritty algal ‘turf’ has shown itself to be remarkably hardy and, once in place, makes it almost impossible for the corals to return.