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.
Category: Flora & Fauna
Biodiversity
Rakali vs. black rat: Australian native rodent fights back
Footage has provided Sydney researchers with the first evidence of a native rakali attacking a black rat – an introduced and problematic species.
Climate
Algae Armageddon
Why has an unprecedented growth of tiny toxic plants been killing marine life en masse along Australia’s southern coastline?
Biodiversity
Surprising twist in the war on weeds
Invasive plant species are working together against biocontrol measures, becoming stronger and smarter.
Biodiversity
Australia gives up on eradicating devastating wood-boring beetle
Authorities have ceased trying to eradicate the invasive pest that has destroyed 4500 trees in the one city where it has been detected.
Flora & Fauna
Peacock spiders: More than meets the eye
Evolution hasn’t only gifted peacock spiders with spectacular markings – these nimble arachnids are also remarkable athletes.
Flora & Fauna
Australia’s cutest mammal is now Australia’s cutest three mammals
The kultarr was thought to be a single widespread species, until now.
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.
Flora & Fauna
Tiny moth solves decades-old pollination mystery
How a ‘weird group of boronias’ pollinate has puzzled botanists for decades. Now the mystery has finally been solved.
Flora & Fauna
Boobialla and the butterfly
It has the ring of a fairytale, but an endangered butterfly’s survival in Western Victoria isn’t the stuff of magic but rather a story of dedicated habitat restoration.