Nature & Wildlife
Hidden housemates: The redback spider
Getting to know Australia’s infamous redback spider.
Category: Wildlife
Nature & Wildlife
Watch a king brown snake take its first breath
Amazing footage of a newborn king brown snake hatching and taking its first breath.
Nature & Wildlife
Where the wild horses are
Historic icon, convenient resource or environmental vandal – brumbies are both revered and reviled across our continent.
Nature & Wildlife
The birds we love to hate
Why we ‘hate’ certain birds – and why their behaviour might be our fault.
Nature & Wildlife
Australia’s mysterious hybrid bird
How often do birds mistakenly mate with other species? That is a question arising from sightings in recent years – the first for well over a century – of Australia’s most mysterious bird, Rawnsley’s bowerbird.
Nature & Wildlife
VIDEO: Catching whale ‘blows’
A team of Queensland scientists is using innovative methods to investigate the success of Australia’s humpback whale populations.
Nature & Wildlife
VIDEO: Humphrey the baby rhino crashes onto the scene
A baby white rhino has joined the rest of its herd, or ‘crash’, at Australia Zoo.
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Everything you need to know about snakes
Love them or hate them, Australia is crawling (well, slithering) with snakes of all kinds – and they’re as fascinating as they are fearsome.
Nature & Wildlife
VIDEO: Bird portrait photographer
Leila Jeffreys captures studio portraits of native birds that show these beauties like never before.
Nature & Wildlife
What’s in a name?
From ’emu’ to ‘cockatoo’, fewer Aussie animal names have their origins in Aboriginal languages than most of us realise – but the trend is shifting.