
Birds use hidden black and white feathers to make their colours pop
New research has revealed a surprising trick in which birds use those boring black and white feathers to make their colours even more vivid.
New research has revealed a surprising trick in which birds use those boring black and white feathers to make their colours even more vivid.
These dogs have learned new tricks to help researchers search for platypuses in hard-to-reach places.
Footage has provided Sydney researchers with the first evidence of a native rakali attacking a black rat – an introduced and problematic species.
Why has an unprecedented growth of tiny toxic plants been killing marine life en masse along Australia’s southern coastline?
For most people, a haircut is a regular routine in which little thought is given to the tresses that fall to the floor. But these discarded locks can help save our environment.
Large and in charge, green tree frogs are here to keep us guessing – whether it’s their colouring, or their cuisine.
We wanted someone who could shoot equally well above and below water for our story on blue carbon, and photographer Alex Pike was perfect for that assignment.
Hold up, humans. Ants figured out medicine, farming and engineering long before we did.
In the half a century since Jaws was released we know so much more about sharks’ amazing biology.
It might seem antithetical that one of the largest animals on earth makes one of the longest migrations of any mammal on record. But that’s what humpback whales do.