• History mystery solved: the origins of the Falkland Islands Wolf, The Conversation
• Wolf mystery solved, Adelaide Advertiser

• Media release, 'Ancient teeth bacteria record disease evolution' for a new paper published in Nature Genetics
• ACAD features in e-Science Magaine Issue 4, 'Ancient dung the key to discovering lost ecological interactions’
• Prehistoric Plaque and the Gentrification of Europe's Mouth, National Geographic

• Read Peggy Macqueen's article 'Ice Age: Resurrecting the past using DNA' published in e-Science Magazine Issue 3.
• Ancient dung holds clues to saving rare plant, ABC Science

• Life in the Freezer: Paul Czechowski answers one of the 10 Big Questions in The Advertiser's Can you Believe it? science series.

• Congratulations to Alan Cooper for being a finalist in the SA Scientist of the year category.
  

Photo by Matthew Burns Photography

• Giant Moa had climage change figured out, Science Daily

• Jeremy Austin wins award. To kick start National Science Week, organisers announced the Unsung Hero of South Australian Science Awards 2012. Congratuations Jeremy.  

Photos courtesy of Donna Montes

• Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) sightings. Herald Sun newspaper article.
• Ancient DNA holds clues to climate change adaptation, e-Science Magazine inaugural issue.

• Congratulations to Jeremy Austin (Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Linh Nguyen, Tanya Monro and team (Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing) for winning $100k to fund the Adelaide Integrated Bioscience Laboratories, part of BioInnovation SA.
  This funding will help build the Advanced DNA Forensics Facility within the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA and develop and implement quality accreditation and method validation for a range of DNA-based methods focussing on degraded human skeletal remains.
• ACAD in Cosmos article, Ancient bison bones hold climate clues
• Climate insight in Bison bones, The Advertiser
• Primeval Bison Bones Unravel Mystery of Climate Change Adaptation, International Business Times, US Edition

• What fossils and ancient DNA analysis reveal, New York Times
• Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change, New Scientist
• Ancient DNA holds clues to climate change adaptation
• Jeremy Austin features in COSMOS magazine

• Our hybrid origins, New Scientist
• Missing person identification - "Nin's Brother" SBS Documentary

The Federal Government released its results of the first ERA evaluation with Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences gaining a 'well above world' standared in research excellence. Read more here.

DNA uncovers one of the world's rarest birds

DNA reveals origins of first European farmers, and First European farmers were Middle Eastern, Cosmos Magazine

Ancient DNA trails leads to modern killers, The Weekend Australian

Adelaide Cheek Swab Campaign, hosted by The University of Adelaide and RiAus and sponsored by IBM.
Members of ACAD, the Environment Institute and IBM Australia took to the Adelaide Central Markets for a Public Cheek Swab campaign to assist in the Genographic Project.

Line-up at 7am.	Public at the information stand.
Volunteers helping the participants	Alan being interviewed
ACAD staff providing project information.	DNA captured

Resurrected mammoth blood very cool. View Prof Alan Cooper's presentation here

Woolly Mammoth blood brought back to life, Cosmos Magazine

Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history

• Ancient bison genetic treasure trove for farmers - New paper, and related article on ABC Science
• The Genoproject takes to the streets of Melbourne, National Geographic

Scientists 'rebuild' giant moa using ancient DNA

DNA from old grave sites, ABC The Science Show

• Giant bird poo records pre-human New Zealand, Media Release
• Poo clue to ancient bird's diet, BBC News

• Stone Age family discovery makes TIME's Top 10, Media Release
• Penguins' not-so-happy ending discovered in DNA, The Adelaidean

• New linkage project to save the endangered Tassie devil; listen to ABC National radio interview on-line (Nov 4, 2008)
• New penguin species found in New Zealand, Media Release
• Stone-age grave reveals ancient nuclear family, Media Release

• 'Chicken and chips' theory of Pacific migration Media Release
• Chicken bone spurs debate over Americas' First Visitors, National Geographic News

Human Remains from HMAS Sydney identified by DNA, video media ABC Sateline trailer story

'Hobbit' fossils debate, BBC News

Tasmanian Tiger extinction mystery, Media Release

Mammoths to Return? DNA advances spur resurrection debate, National Geographic News

• Ancient DNA unlocks secrets of the past, The Adelaidean
• Neanderthal man's last stand, Sydney Morning Herald