Wildlife
Gallery: Deadly bees in Australia
Australia’s scientists are abuzz with the potential of our native bees, some of which can be deadly.
Category: Wildlife
Science & Environment
Weirdest species names
Species names may sound formal, but look further and you’ll see the joke.
Wildlife
Video: Australia’s biggest stick insect
Museum Victoria Live exhibits keeper Maik Fiedel describes the Lady Gaga-ntuan stick insect.
Wildlife
Video: Kangaroo eating a bird
Rare video of a kangaroo eating a bird has been captured on film.
Wildlife
Video: Where do eagles dare?
Watch the trailer to Simon Cherriman’s new documentary about wedge-tailed eagles
Wildlife
Magnificent helicarionid land snail
The extremely limited distribution of the magnificent helicarionid land snail has made it vulnerable to extinction
Wildlife
VIDEO: Tree kangaroo’s expert climbing skills
It seems hard to believe a kangaroo could climb trees, but they are surprisingly adept at clambering between the branches
Wildlife
An illustrated guide to Australia’s cicadas
Music to your ears or a midsummer cacophony, the cicada’s song is inevitably short lived.
Wildlife
Gallery: Gouldian Finch
The exquisite Gouldian finch is one of the world’s most prized caged birds.They once gathered together in the many hundreds but now the biggest flocks, found in the NT and the Kimberley, number little more than a few hundred.