
Postcards from Lightning Ridge
The first week of the Australian Opal Centre and Australian Geographic fossil dig at Lightning Ridge has unearthed plenty of fossils and opals.
The first week of the Australian Opal Centre and Australian Geographic fossil dig at Lightning Ridge has unearthed plenty of fossils and opals.
Meet Kirsten Banks, Indigenous astronomer and the newest member of our AG family. Over the coming months she’ll be sharing her knowledge of space from an Aboriginal perspective.
The endangered forty-spotted pardalote is preyed upon by a parasitic fly the moment it hatches. But now, scientists have invented a crafty way to protect hatchlings.
Wearing a vertically inclined conga line of decapitated heads as a hat is just so metal.
Australia’s mining expertise is at the forefront of a new era of space exploration that’s looking to the Moon and beyond.
Like baby xenomorphs lurking menacingly in the crawl space, orchid mantis babies are feisty little critters that sure can hold their own.
Meet wombat joeys Beatrice, Bronson and Landon: few babies have had such a tough start to life as these three.
Over the past year, CSIRO has given scientific names to 165 new species.
A chilly, but superb place to observe stars.
Exactly why the Top End’s mammals have declined so severely has long been unknown, leaving scientists and conservation managers at a loss.