There are few birds more sinister than the pelican. Because what other bird would drown a duckling, swallow a pigeon and try its best to eat a capybara?
There’s no funnel-web nightmares for our furry friends.
Twenty-five years ago, Cathy Freeman won gold at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in a performance that became a lasting symbol of national pride and reconciliation.
Little more than 50 years ago, Australian and British astronomers dazzled the world with their newly commissioned Anglo-Australian Telescope on Gamilaraay Country in north-western NSW.
Female march flies love us. They can’t get enough. Why? They need us to make their babies.
Why hunt for food when someone else can do the work for you?
Seals have a reputation for being playful, but when it comes to Australian fur seals, that’s only half the story.
And of course they eat mice and lizards for breakfast!
You don’t have to try so hard when you’ve got lightning speed.
Some people spend a long time focused on a single topic. But how about a third of a century to find out how fast fingernails grow? (Spoiler alert: the short answer is about a 10th of a millimetre per day.)