Previously labelled extinct in Victoria, eastern barred bandicoots are now starting to flourish across the state in a historic conservation first.
Off the Australian coastline, the ocean’s most majestic creatures await. From the sparkling waters of Hervey Bay in Queensland to the untamed and teeming Southern Ocean off Western Australia, there’s a whale encounter with your name on it. And even better, they’re all in the name of conservation.
Millions of feral moggies devour billions of native Australian animals each year, bringing species to the edge of extinction.
Why did early scientists give the green tree frog a Latin name that means ‘blue’?
When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds.
Meet the blossom bat.
The giant Antarctic sea spider looks like an alien.
That rainbowfish are so well adapted to harsh conditions means they could survive under even more extreme weather brought on by climate change.
Look at this wonderful beast of a possum. What a round boy. Mere trees can’t contain such monstrous fluff! Except they can and they do.
An ecologist and bird-enthusiast has captured the rare sight of endangered flock bronzewing pigeons in big numbers in the outback.