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Creatura with Bec Crew

Jumping spiders are basically just cats

They’re cute, curious, and won’t get off our kitchen bench.

Tim the Yowie Man

No concrete evidence to support common Aussie myth

Did you hear the story about the workman who was buried alive in wet concrete during a bridge construction? Or was it a dam? 

Tim the Yowie Man

Summer solstice Down Under

There’s something magical about a ray of sunlight, especially if it illuminates an object of reverence. Even more so if it’s a spectacle that only occurs once a year. 

Treading Lightly with Roger Smith

Judbarra and its special wallaby 

As altered fire regimes transform ecosystems across the Top End, intact wilderness offers a vital lifeline for native wildlife.

Space with Fred Watson

Uranus’s newly discovered moon just 10km wide

Earlier this year, a team of astronomers led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, made a discovery that was paradoxically both humdrum and spectacularly exciting.

Creatura with Bec Crew

Box jellyfish are the Swiss Army knives of the ocean

Nature didn’t dole out survival tools fairly – some animals got the lion’s share, while others… make do with what they’ve got.

Tim the Yowie Man

‘They got the lot!’: Australia’s biggest-ever bank heist

When residents of the NSW Northern Rivers town of Murwillumbah awoke on 23 November 1978, they discovered their main street was crawling with police cars and camera-toting media.

Creatura with Bec Crew

Quolls have no business being that cute

If not friend, why friend-shaped?

Creatura with Bec Crew

Spider crabs are a walking buffet – but don’t tell them that

Let’s just say, they don’t have the thickest of skins.

Need To Know with Dr Karl

Dr Karl explains sex-reversal in the animal world

We used to think the ‘sex’ of an animal was clearly defined by its chromosomes. But it’s way more complicated than it seems.

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