Wildlife
Globetrotting butterflies
Delicate and beautiful, butterflies are also intrepid travellers, making impressive journeys across the globe.
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Wildlife
Kids, put down the snails
Around 5% of common garden snails in and around Sydney contain larvae of the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm.
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Watch a king brown snake take its first breath
Amazing footage of a newborn king brown snake hatching and taking its first breath.
Wildlife
Where the wild horses are
Historic icon, convenient resource or environmental vandal – brumbies are both revered and reviled across our continent.
Wildlife
The birds we love to hate
Why we ‘hate’ certain birds – and why their behaviour might be our fault.
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.
Wildlife
VIDEO: Catching whale ‘blows’
A team of Queensland scientists is using innovative methods to investigate the success of Australia’s humpback whale populations.
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.
Wildlife
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.