Flora & Fauna
Colour or camouflage?
While some animals use camouflage to hide from predators, others use bright colour to warn predators off. But which strategy is more effective?
Category: Flora & Fauna
Flora & Fauna
Getting to the heart of the arthropod world
Measuring our own heart rate seems like a straightforward idea, but how would you go about taking the pulse of a grasshopper or a spider?
Flora & Fauna
This seabird prefers to poo while flying
Researchers studying streaked shearwaters were surprised by their own discovery.
Flora & Fauna
A place of refuge… nearly
Victoria’s promised new national parks in the central west are vital to safeguarding forests and the hundreds of rare and threatened wildlife that depend on them.
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
Cockatoos have 30 different dance moves
From body rolls, to side-steps, to headbangs, Australian researchers have studied the dance repertoire of cockatoos, and investigated why they bust these moves.
Climate
Not all species are fleeing rising temperatures
Global warming creates new ecological hotspots as predators move out and other species move in, study finds.
Biodiversity
Let there be night
Artificial light has illuminated and reshaped our world after dark – but at what cost?
Flora & Fauna
Hidden ‘bird highways’ reveal the extraordinary ways birds migrate to find water
Australian researchers attached ‘backpacks’ with tiny sensors on nomadic Australian waterbirds birds to discover the extraordinary ways they migrate to find water.
Flora & Fauna
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.