In Flaggy Creek, near Kuranda, which means “place of the platypus” in the Djabugay language, it had been decades since the last individual was documented, and the elders were becoming worried.

With my PhD project at the Functional Morphology Lab of the University of Antwerp, I aim to understand how songbirds use their beaks to feed on seeds. How do they remove the husk of a seed without ...