Treading Lightly with Roger Smith
Solving snake stigma
Let’s extend an olive branch to Australia’s most often misunderstood reptiles and correct misconceptions about them.
Need To Know with Dr Karl
The truth about cat and dog years
The idea behind ‘pet years’ is to have a simple way to compare the life stages of our pets to human life spans. The standard understanding is that one pet year equals seven human years. However, the reality is much more complex. After all, most one-year-old pets can make babies – but seven-year-old humans cannot.
Tim the Yowie Man
The Australian ghost story with its own festival
An annual festival now celebrates the story of Frederick Fisher’s ghost.
Treading Lightly with Roger Smith
Why protect Ningaloo?
Famed for whale sharks, Ningaloo is also a safe nursery for lactating humpback whales and their newborn calves.
Space
Alien volcanos
Once in a while, our planet reminds us of its awesome power by releasing a little of the magma that permeates its mantle in a volcanic eruption.
Tim the Yowie Man
The baffling boulders of Black Mountain
The way ahead is blocked by an imposing jumble of jet-black boulders precariously stacked on each other. Beneath this is an eerie underworld of secret chambers where giant pythons and carnivorous ghost bats lurk.
Treading Lightly with Roger Smith
The day a Mungo swallow ‘slapped me in the face’
As I was coming up the rickety steps of the Zanci Homestead dugout in Mungo National Park several years ago, something slapped me in the face and squeaked. My head snapped up to see, 10cm from my face, a welcome swallow defending its nest site. I was definitely not welcome!
Need To Know with Dr Karl
Killer cat stats
A crunching of the numbers reveals some extremely sobering facts about the carnage caused by feral cats in Australia.
Need To Know with Dr Karl
A Stonehenge puzzle solved
One of the many mysteries of Stonehenge – where its Altar Stone came from – has recently been solved by Australian scientists.
Space
A ringed planet Earth?
Ask almost anyone which planet has rings around it, and you’ll get the answer “Saturn”, especially if they’ve ever viewed it through a telescope. But not many people know that the other gas giants in our Solar System – Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune – also have rings, although they’re much fainter than those of Saturn.