Aboriginal people were already living in Australia’s interior 49,000 years ago, according to an incredible series of new archaeological discoveries.
Digging for opalised fossils at Lightning Ridge offers a chance to be involved in real science and get a taste for the toils of an opal miner.
Twenty-tonne Savannasaurus from western Queensland brings the number of named Australian sauropods to five.
Enjoy an evening of thrilling dinosaur revelations with John Pickrell fossil enthusiast and editor of Australian Geographic.
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
It’s been 100 years since the darkest day in Australian military history, which saw the most casualties in 24 hours of any Australian battle.
Dr Karl investigates the growing global trend of heat waves, which have killed more Australians than all other natural disasters combined.
How the thorny devil takes “flat out like a lizard drinking” to the extreme.
Dr Karl’s ode to the ergonomic and elegant design of the pedestrian button.
A potent symbol of Aboriginal Australia recognised the world-over, this flag first ruffled in the wind in Adelaide in 1971.