Nature & Wildlife
Listen: Australia’s rivers play secret symphonies
Beneath the water is a soundscape of clicks, pops and hums that most of us never hear.
Category: Water
Flora & Fauna
Whales and dolphins mutually benefit from ‘playing’ together, study finds
A new study has analysed hundreds of interactions between whales and dolphins to better understand a rarely studied behaviour – do they actually ‘play’ together, or is it more of a one-sided relationship?
Flora & Fauna
Paddleboarding pups sniff out elusive platypus
These dogs have learned new tricks to help researchers search for platypuses in hard-to-reach places.
Climate
Algae Armageddon
Why has an unprecedented growth of tiny toxic plants been killing marine life en masse along Australia’s southern coastline?
History & Culture
50 years after ‘Jaws’ the man-eater myth has been retired
In the half a century since Jaws was released we know so much more about sharks’ amazing biology.
Nature & Wildlife
Dwarf minke whale’s call sounds just like a lightsaber
A recent encounter on the Great Barrier Reef has yielded one of the clearest recordings to date of a dwarf minke whale vocalisation – a sound so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.
Creatura with Bec Crew
Tiger sharks: Trash cans of the sea, or clever opportunists?
Por qué no los dos?
Flora & Fauna
Orcas filmed grooming each other with seaweed in rare case of ocean mammal tool use
Australian marine scientists say new research documenting orcas using seaweed as a tool for grooming is further evidence of the species’ complex social structures.
Nature & Wildlife
Nocturnal sea slugs don’t bother looking fancy
Sea slugs with the brightest colouration and most eye-catching patterns are active during the daytime, when their appearance is at its most striking, recent research from The University of Queensland confirms.
Nature & Wildlife
Spotting leopard sharks once again
Australian shark experts and aquariums are supporting a world-first conservation project to save the elusive leopard shark in Southeast Asia.