Flora & Fauna
High-tech cameras capture venomous snake bites in incredible detail
Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different strategies.
Nature & Wildlife
Shades of cray
Often mistaken for yabbies, the freshwater spiny crayfish species of Australia’s east coast are extraordinarily diverse.
Nature & Wildlife
More whales are getting caught in nets off Australia’s east coast
Scientists have noticed a troubling rise in the number of whales caught and tangled in fishing and shark nets this migration season.
Creatura with Bec Crew
Australia’s inland taipan is taking things a little too far
What does this snake need all that venom for, anyway?
AG Society
Bugs, birds and biodiversity win big in this year’s Awards for Nature
Meet the winners of the Australian Geographic Society’s 2025 nature funding program.
Fossils
Hunters or collectors? New evidence challenges claim Australia’s First Peoples hunted megafauna to extinction
Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out Australian megafauna’ theory.
Creatura with Bec Crew
Bull ants are Australia’s tiny tyrants
Their sting isn’t their only intimidating trait.
Nature & Wildlife
More proof that gold is truly ‘Au-some’
Gold truly deserves to be called a precious metal. Indeed, all the gold that has been mined throughout human history would fit inside a cube that’s 22m long on each side
Nature & Wildlife
The tale of ‘Lucky’ the turtle
One fortunate turtle enjoys an all-inclusive health retreat after falling from the sky.
Creatura with Bec Crew
I love you, pelicans, but you’re freaking me out
There are few birds more sinister than the pelican. Because what other bird would drown a duckling, swallow a pigeon and try its best to eat a capybara?