The swamps, rivers and estuaries across northern Australia are home to one of the biggest, fiercest – and perhaps most misunderstood – predators in the world. We wrestle the saltwater crocodile facts from the fiction, including how to stay safe in croc country.
UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph this “tornado” of budgies around a waterhole in outback Australia.
UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph these flocks of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) near Alice Springs.
Many mainstream Aussie words like “digger” and even the word “Aussie” itself have their origins in the trenches of WWI.
Australia is renowned for its venomous snakes, scary spiders and even painful plants – but the animals that pose the biggest risk to our lives might surprise you.
What the ‘weather’ is like on a star can help in the search for life.
Meet Jill, the busiest koala mum at the Australian Reptile Park and resident wet-nurse for three joeys, only one of which is hers!
Delicate and beautiful, butterflies are also intrepid travellers, making impressive journeys across the globe.
Around 5% of common garden snails in and around Sydney contain larvae of the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm.