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Unlocking the mystery of how true seals disappeared from the Cape

  • Written by The Conversation
imageThere is an abundance of baby fur seals on the west coast of South Africa, but true seals, which inhabited the area five million years ago, no longer do so.Supplied

Five million years ago, the southwestern tip of Africa was teaming with animals such as the African bear (Agriotherium), the giant wolverine (Plesiogulo), the short-neck long-horned...

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Joyce breaks cabinet rules, but his fate is PM's call

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imageBarnaby Joyce has been outspoken in opposition to a government decision to build a coal mine in his electorate of New England.AAP/Lukas Coch

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce described a federal government decision to allow mining on prime agricultural land in his electorate as a sign of a “world gone mad”. Is this criticism of a...

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Bowie and gender transgression – what a drag

  • Written by The Conversation
imageDavid Bowie posing for the Aladdin Sane tour, 1973. Photograph by Masayoshi Sukita. Image courtesy of ACMI.

Same old thing In brand new drag Comes sweeping into view – David Bowie, Teenage Wildlife (1980)

Time and again, David Bowie has confounded us with enigmatic acts of gender transgression.

Those acts have been fuelled by a restless drive...

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  1. Greece's total surrender to German demands shows failure of euro integration
  2. Submissions to family violence royal commission reveal a fragmented system
  3. A Greek tragedy: the long-lasting damage of Tsipras’ adventurism
  4. The off-topic Conversation #51
  5. Workaholism isn't a valid requirement for advancing in science
  6. The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene, Part 2
  7. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is meant to back winners, not minnows
  8. Outdated views shut entrepreneurial women out of capital markets
  9. What's the best way to take notes on your laptop or tablet?
  10. Explainer: what are superbugs and how can we control them?
  11. Remembering the ‘old’ Department of Immigration's nation-building traditions
  12. Freedom Stories: what I've learned from filming Australia's asylum seekers
  13. Science can drive the sustainability of our precious soils, water and oceans
  14. Greece: a Europe forged in crisis may have just laid the foundations for the next
  15. Could the Pill save the polar bear?
  16. New Horizons is an old spacecraft – but it will transform our knowledge of Pluto
  17. With hopes low, Tsipras may have just done the best deal possible for Greece
  18. Making sense of our evolution
  19. What kind of university can help reduce poverty?
  20. NHS spending is less transparent and accountable in more deprived areas
  21. A new weapon of Islamist extremists is...poetry?
  22. The calamity of the disappearing school libraries
  23. Could 'balanced harvesting' really feed the world and save the oceans?
  24. Elon Musk's high-speed Hyperloop train makes more sense for Mars than California
  25. How a virtual 'mob boss' from Texas became the new face of organized crime
  26. Why do flags matter? The case of Japan
  27. Come to Paris climate conference, prime minister: French ambassador
  28. As CEO exits, Reddit finds to its cost that even unpaid workers can go on strike
  29. Politics podcast: Christophe Lecourtier on the 2015 Paris climate conference
  30. ASIC’s Fashion Faux-Pas
  31. The government should keep its hands off clean energy finance
  32. For those seeking to boost voter turnout, Scotland is a false friend
  33. Watch your language when talking about autism
  34. China's migrant worker crisis and the children who are left behind
  35. The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse 'memories' is still causing damage today
  36. How being Celtic got a bad name – and why you should care
  37. Pluto and its collision-course place in our solar system
  38. Why public opinion should be used to measure political risk in Africa
  39. Decolonise more than just curriculum content – change the structure, too
  40. Why genetically modified crops have been slow to take hold in Africa
  41. Health Check: I feel a bit sick, should I stay home or go to work?
  42. Let the Constitution and democratic principle guide us to renew federalism
  43. Love Mercy: what Brian Wilson’s story tells us about genius and music
  44. Philosophy in schools: promoting critical, creative and caring thinking
  45. How China's bull market could bleed into its economy
  46. Opponents of same-sex marriage are losing touch with secular reality
  47. How baffling is the Abbott government’s assault on windfarms?
  48. The ANZUS ascendancy (continued)
  49. The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene, Part 1
  50. Minimum wage review needed to fix structural unemployment: OECD

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